On Thursday, March 06, 2014 09:44:14 Ryan Lortie wrote: ... > By "currently run on" do you mean that we actually run on these in > situations that we know about, or that we have the theoretical ability, > if someone wanted to... > > I'm fairly sure that Unity would not run nicely on any hardware from > late 90s/early 00s. You could maybe repurpose an extremely old machine > as an Ubuntu server and we could be cutting those people out, but they > also have many other options (such as Debian). This could potentially > hurt some flavours like Xubuntu which might actually be capable of > running on hardware of that vintage. > > Looking at some typical historical models released by Dell, machines > that came with Pentium 2 and Pentium 3 chips tended to have between 64MB > (low) and 512MB (very high end). 256MB seems somewhat typical for > Pentium 3 machines, at least. Clocks are in the sub-GHz range and > entirely single-core. It's possible to imagine that XFCE could run > here, but it wouldn't exactly be nice... ... FWIW, I have a dual Pentium III 450 system from ~1999 running Ubuntu Server as a test system.
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