advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[Florian Diesch]

Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:51, Justin <eqisow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I am considering installing ubuntu or something like that on some old,
>>> small
>>> machines. xubuntu could be a good choice (I understand that is based also
>>> on
>>> gtk, so most gnome programs should work). But even xubuntu could be to
>>> large.
>>>
>>> What other good options are there, to maintain some compatibility with
>>> gnome programs? We need absolutely GNU emacs with auctex for
>>> tex/latex stuff, and abiword or even openoffice would be nice. Also
>>> firefox.
>>>
>>> ¿What options are there?
>>>
>>> How small are we talking, here?
>>
>> Xubuntu is not really any slimmer than Gnome/KDE, despite what some here
>> will tell you.
>
> About 200 MB ram. Windows XP are running on those machines now, very slowly..

"Once installed, Xubuntu can run with starting from 192 (or even just
128) MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB
RAM." (http://www.xubuntu.org/get)


> We hope for something slim enough to be faster.


I'd install Xubuntu and a simple window manager and then use that
window manager instead of Xfce.


   Florian
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