Installing Ubuntu

[Karl F. Larsen]

Sean or Mona wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Broughton" <derek at pointerstop.ca>
> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 11:14
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu
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>> It's a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 - what did you expect?  I admit the release notes
>> say that should be sufficient, but still...  It's going to drag. How much
>> memory do you have?
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> 256 megs.
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    If you can afford about $50.00 American you can buy more RAM and up 
that 256mb to 2,000 mb and then I think the latest version of Ubuntu 
will load easy and work pretty fast.

Karl



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>> So it works on Windows 2000 - you could probably get great performance out
>> of a Dapper version of Ubuntu, too.
>>
>> And no, the menus aren't supposed to work like Windows.
>>     
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> Uh huh.  Well that's something that nobody really told me. How ARE the menus
> supposed to work?  It really lost me and in utter defeat I was forced to
> crawl back to Windoze again.
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