Ubuntu in the News: Test of distributions for an old laptop

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 13:47 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:55:41PM +0200, Christian Jensen wrote:
> > Armed with a 800 megahertz Celeron, 10 gigabyte hard drive and 128 
> > megabytes of RAM, Fedora Core, Gentoo, (K)Ubuntu and OpenSUSE and 
> > VectorLinux are being tested.
> > 
> > http://www.linuxforums.org/desktop/a_linux_distribution_for_an_old_laptop.html
> > 
> > "Kubuntu / Ubuntu: 3/10 points
> > http://www.ubuntu.com
> > Advantages: One of the easiest install routines.
> > Disadvantages: Fairly sizable footprint (2 gigabytes PLUS user space). 
> > Very few options for installation to minimize footprint. I was not able 
> > to get this installed successfully on my laptop."
> 
> He was unable to install it because he created a partition which was
> (slightly) smaller than the minimum requirements, then gave up when it ran
> out of space.

1. He was not able to find any documentation of the minimum requirements

2. Isn't it a bug that the installer fails to check available space?

Lee