[plug] (X)Ubuntu, older hardware (WAS: What version of CPU and Linux do people use?)

[James L. Clarke]

My Pentium 1/166 Machine has 128Mb of RAM and it's not running X. However until
two years ago it was used as my wife's desktop with dual boot NT4 SP6 and Ubuntu
 4.10. NT4 SP6 ran fine, but Ubuntu 4.10 was a bit of a dog on if but better
than Mandrake which it used to have on it before Ubuntu came about.

Well, when the printer broke and the new one required an upgrade to win2k which
was a total dog, we went out and got a iMac for my wife's desktop and I turned
this machine into a server.

So now my wife runs OS X Tiger on her desktop, I have a dual boot Windows XP
(extra pathetic) and Ubuntu 6.10 on my desktop, and Ubuntu 5.10 on my server.

James Clarke

http://www.pbase.com/jameslclarke

Quoting Gregory Orange <gregory.orange at metoceanengineers.com>:

> James L. Clarke wrote:
> > Here are the ones I'm currently using:-
> > 
> > Ubuntu 6.10 i386 on a Pentium 4
> > Ubuntu 5.10 Server i386 on a Pentium 1/166(yes I'm still using a very old
> > machine for my experimental server)
> 
> I've got an old P2 Toshiba laptop (300MHz I think) with 64MB RAM which 
> needs an OS reinstall coz the Win98 is full of junk. I am considering 
> Xubuntu, any recommendations on the viability of this? What sort of 
> (open?)office experience should I expect?
> 
> Otherwise I'll bite the bullet and find Win98SE and Office97 media for 
> the reinstall. Sure it'll just get reinfested but by the time it's 
> unworkable again it probably won't be viable hardware for regular use 
> any more.
> 
> Greg.
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