Hi John, I had Xubuntu 7.04 and then 7.10 running on an old (circa 2001) 1.9GHz P4 (with 1GB RAM, 40GB HD). It ran very well indeed, and I was really impressed with the way it gave my ageing kit an Indian summer packed with Linux power and goodness.
Inevitably, the elderly E-IDE drive (which must have been 150 years old in disc years) took a unilateral and executive decision to spontaneously retire, but I still have the sweet memories ;) No doubt Xubuntu is a great option for extending the life of many old laptops out there, as well as providing a lighter-weight option for current entry-level spec laptops. I might also be a good option for people with local development and file-sharing type servers, who want to provide non-specialist co-workers with a GUI onto the system, but don't want to clobber their Celeron and its 512MB RAM with a full GNOME or KDE install ;) I'm sure you're aware of this, but if you find yourself missing any tools from GNOME, you can install most of them without problems on Xubuntu. At least, I installed several GNOME-specific admin tools and apps without any problems. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
