Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 700 mhz laptop with 256 ram running lubuntu

2011-07-06 Thread Yorvyk 
On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:10:23 +0200
Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Le Monday 04 July 2011 à 18:48 -0400, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a
 écrit :
  Question to the devs: do you think that maybe one day the
  optimizations could make a nice and usable system (say Lubuntu)
  running with the requeriments that Win98 did? I'm talking about less
  that 150Mhz and less than 50Mb Ram... 
 
 For the 50 Mb of RAM, maybe not out-of-the-box, but maybe in the
 futur, when it will be easier to disable more services, and with some
 optimizations. And of course, if nothing from the outside add more
 weight :) But for now, we are just trying to maintain the actual
 situation :)
 
 For the 150 MHz, difficult to say, it's really ... slow and old :) I had
 this type of computer when I was a kid :)
 
I only had a 1.25MHz CPU and 768 bytes of RAM in my computer as a kid. :)

I would say a 300MHz CPU and 128 KiB of RAM is a more realistic lower limit, 
i.e. machines from earlier this century.  For machines from the previous 
century I would suggest looking at TinyCore [1], or something like FreeDOS [2] 
and GEM [3].

[1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com 
[2] http://www.freedos.org/
[3] http://www.deltasoft.com/

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 700 mhz laptop with 256 ram running lubuntu

2011-07-06 Thread Phill Whiteside 
I have an instance of Zenix (Debian Based) that runs on 70MB RAM using my
Virtual Machine. Whether the Developer could actually squeeze another 20MB
out of it and retain good functionality is something I can ask, but doubt.
It is already a pretty slim system!

If anyone would like to have a try with it, it is available for download
from http://zenix-os.net/download.html

Regards,

Phill.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:10:23 +0200
 Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote:

  Le Monday 04 July 2011 à 18:48 -0400, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a
  écrit :
   Question to the devs: do you think that maybe one day the
   optimizations could make a nice and usable system (say Lubuntu)
   running with the requeriments that Win98 did? I'm talking about less
   that 150Mhz and less than 50Mb Ram...
 
  For the 50 Mb of RAM, maybe not out-of-the-box, but maybe in the
  futur, when it will be easier to disable more services, and with some
  optimizations. And of course, if nothing from the outside add more
  weight :) But for now, we are just trying to maintain the actual
  situation :)
 
  For the 150 MHz, difficult to say, it's really ... slow and old :) I had
  this type of computer when I was a kid :)
 
 I only had a 1.25MHz CPU and 768 bytes of RAM in my computer as a kid. :)

 I would say a 300MHz CPU and 128 KiB of RAM is a more realistic lower
 limit, i.e. machines from earlier this century.  For machines from the
 previous century I would suggest looking at TinyCore [1], or something like
 FreeDOS [2] and GEM [3].

 [1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com
 [2] http://www.freedos.org/
 [3] http://www.deltasoft.com/

 --
 Steve Cook (Yorvyk)

 http://lubuntu.net

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