On Wed, 18 May 2011 18:00:36 +0100 Alan Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would rather they just stuck a respectable amount of ram in them and > put Ubuntu on them, it works just fine on low spec machines. I don't > really see the point in having an OS that "works" in low memory > conditions when as soon as you open Firefox and LibreOffice it is going > to be painful anyway. > > Alan. > > On 18/05/11 14:48, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > for such low spec machines it *may* be worth trying the Lubuntu suite > > on them. Lubuntu gets full adoption at 11.10 by Canonical, the 11.04 > > is happily running now. For really old kit (pre i686) lubuntu are > > going to continue to backport to the 10.04 stable beta the lxde and > > pcmanfm etc. for a while yet. (I think we were discussing 5 years). > > It would be nice if they did stick a respectable amount of RAM in them but, if they haven't got it they can't. Lubuntu works very well on the low spec machine, I've been running a similar set up for a while now, and it looks similar to XP. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
