Ubuntu on an older PC

[David]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:52:37PM -0500, BBBB wrote:
> I was thinking about putting Ubuntu on a PC and giving it to a friends Son. 
> The PC would be  Pentium II 350 with 128M ram. 
> Would this be a waste of time with a machine this slow?
> 
> If so, what would be tolerable?
> I couldn't find any hardware reccomendations on the Ubuntu site. 
> But if it's there, I'm sure someone will let me know !


Some call it frugal, and others call it mean.. but I never buy a machine 
until the old one is totally dead. I had Hoary running on a 260Mhz/128Mb 
until the noise from the fan drove everyone to distraction.

I'm still running Hoary on a 350.

OTOH, I just replaced the old 260/128 with a 2.8G/512 and I have to admit 
to noticing a slight difference in performance :)) 

If you are doing basic stuff like webbrowsing, wordprocessing and email, 
then the old machine is fine. Why add to landfill?