Ubuntu on old machine
HillarP
hillar.poldmaa at mail.ee
Sun Aug 31 17:36:27 UTC 2008
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 31. august 2008 18:13) kirjutas Doug Pollard:
> Hi all,
> I have something I want to try later Probably in the spring and am
> looking for a couple of opinions. I would like to put EMC on an old
> computer I have. Right now I am busy with doing video and trying to get
> some knowhow with the terminal. This whole thing is now in the thinking
> about stage. I have a little shop with a lathe and milling machine
> that would be fun to run as CNC on Emc.
> The box is a E-machine 266 MHZ and 250 megabits of Random
> access memory. It has a 4o gig and 60 gig hard drives. It will boot
> from cd. Will Ubuntu 8.04 install and run on such a machine? Would I
> be better off to try something like Xubuntu or Puppy Linux. The machine
> will be totally dedicated to EMC. All other Ubuntu work will be done
> on the machine I am presently using.
> I am also keeping my eyes open for a free or really cheap box with a
> little more oomff :-) the question may be mute.
> Thanks for any advice, Doug
Normal Ubuntu need at least 390MB RAM. You can try alternative CD for
installation - it should work. Also You may try DamnSmallLinux.
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With best regards
HillarP
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