Installing Ubuntu

[Sean or Mona]

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From: "squareyes" <squareyes at internode.on.net>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 20:58
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu


> Hi,
> I have a 1.8m athlon machine that runs 8.04 with 512 meg of ram quite
> well, it's no speed demon, but it generally gets the job done.
> If you know what type of memory you have, you may be able to pick some
> up second hand,
> that will keep you going. Alternatively are there any organizations in
> your area that recycle machines for low income people?
> You may get something there.
> Hope this helps.

Actually I don't have that many outlets except the occasional garage sale. A
few years ago I acquired a 6 gig hard drive from a garage sale which helped
me a great deal at the time.
Indeed I have at times played "scavenger" with neighbour's garbage to
acquire used parts - even some old RAM chips.... rarely are they compatible.
I realize if I had the right connections, getting sloppy seconds from school
and/or government offices could be a good starting point but I don't know
the right people.
I'm just USUALLY content with what I have and when I try to change it,
sometimes there are glitches.  I didn't mean to cheese off everybody in this
list in my attempt at trying.

At least OOo is cross platform. 3.1 RC2 has just finished downloading and it
suits me fine as a free alternative to the MS O2K I was using (with a
regular serial number that didn't need "activation").