While it is possible to run simple tasks with that little RAM, I'd definitely upgrade to at least 2GB. Your performance will improve noticably if just through a lack of swapping.
On 01/30/2014 04:35 AM, Robin wrote: > No joy on my attempt to upgrade from a fully-updated 12.04 to 14.04 > using 'update-manager -d -c'. > > It offered Trusty to upgrade to, told me about the requirements (in > terms of disk space), and estimated the time of download to be 6 > minutes at my connection speed. > > After downloading the packages it got stuck on installation, > "configuring apt." I let it go for hours just to see if it would > unlock itself and get going, but it was just frozen solid. Hard > reboot failed. Reinstalled and updated 12.04 with no trouble. > > I wish I could brag about upgrading to Trusty! I've never even > attempted an upgrade before, always preferring a fresh install. But > hopefully something can be learned from my attempt at least. > > My computer is a Dell Dimension: > Computer > Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz > Memory 506MB (339MB used) > Operating System Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS > User Name robin (Robin) > Date/Time Thu 30 Jan 2014 05:20:21 AM EST > Display > Resolution 1280x1024 pixels > OpenGL Renderer Unknown > X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation > Multimedia > Audio Adapter ICH4 - Intel ICH5 > > Running Xubuntu 12,04 LTS: > Version > Kernel Linux 3.2.0-58-generic (i686) > Compiled #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:40:43 UTC 2013 > C Library Unknown > Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro > 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) > Distribution Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS > Current Session > Computer Name robin-Dell-DE051 > User Name robin (Robin) > Home Directory /home/robin > Desktop Environment XFCE 4 > > > > I hope this is helpful in some way for a first-time tester! > -Robin > > >
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