HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu - a last word

Sat Nov 5 20:54:51 UTC 2005

neil woolford wrote:
> My (second hand, cheap) 500MHz PIII desktop even manages DVD playback -
> though you can see the odd dropped frame on long smooth tracks and pans
> sometimes.  It would probably be better if I had a more advanced DMA
> type available, but the drive is a very old one...
> 
> Neil

Ubuntu runs VERY well on a PIII 650 with 512 megs of ram

- cr