minimum RAM for Ubuntu

[Dotan Cohen]

On 01/04/2008, Hilary Naylor <hilary.naylor at ousd.k12.ca.us> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Ubuntu (or Edubuntu) on a Dell latitude CPt laptop
>  that was donated to my school. The installation stalls at the point where
>  there is a brown rectangle on the screen and the icon for Nautilus appears.
>  The laptop has only 129MB RAM (and a 6GB hard disk). Is this the reason it
>  is stalling? Is there a minimal version of Ubuntu I could use? I am afraid
>  that more RAM for the laptop will be too expensive.
>

Must the laptop be Ubuntu, Hilary? There are several Linux distros
designed for such machines, such as DamnSmallLinux. They can be
configured with most of the same applications as Ubuntu, but I would
recommend specifically staying away from Open Office until OOo3 comes
out. OOo 2.x are resource hogs, 3 may be better.

Dotan Cohen

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