Ubuntu on a 486?

Gabriel Dragffy dragffy at yandex.ru
Wed Dec 13 11:10:21 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 07:29 +0100, Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Canonical has stated it wants Ubuntu to be the best distro on the
> desktop. I installed it for this reason. It provides a good Linux
> server, too, with some restrictions: As of now, LTS won't even run on
> my server (62 MB RAM are the guilty party here). Do you see me
> protesting? No, I installed Sarge on it. 

You're kidding!? 62 MB RAM for a server install won't suffice for LTS?
Last time I installed Sarge it started up many more 'excess' services
than Ubuntu did. Server Ubuntu really can't work on 62 MB?

Gabe





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