On Saturday 15 December 2007, Karlheinz Noise wrote: > I was one of those newbies, if you might recall. I got checksum errors when > I tried to even install US on my old Celeron 400, asked why, and nobody > gave me any help other than "Don't bother, get a better machine."
Look, I've *tried* to do this stuff on low spec hardware. I have first-hand experience with a variety of old hand-me-down computers in the Pentium, PII and PIII range. I spent a lot of time in particular on a PII- or PIII-400 (not sure which) that I was trying to get working just well enough to run Rosegarden with a very minimalist soft synth setup. It never happened. If I was quick to tell you to quit wasting your time with a 400 MHz Celeron, that's why. It wouldn't have accomplished anything other than guaranteeing you would have a completely miserable first experience. As it happened, you still had a completely miserable first experience. I'm sorry about that, but it doesn't change the facts about the machine you were trying to use. That one *guaranteed* a miserable experience, whereas the other one gave you a fighting chance (and you still lost the fight, as it turned out.) -- D. Michael McIntyre -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
