linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Will this work and can a novice do it?

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Will this work and can a novice do it?

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 03:52:51AM -0000, David M wrote:

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> Thank you for the information. It only has about 256mb of ram. I do think that is funny because I remember a time when people thought 256mb was too much and questioned if I really need that much ram. Now it is not enough :)
>
Heh, we could start a flood of remembering--the old PCs with 3 GB hard
drives and 32 MB of RAM--hrrm, should I spend another $200 and make it
64?

Interestingly enough, those systems probably ran just as well--the bloat
these days is absurd.

You could still try Ubuntu, though something like Arch might be a better
choice. Although it's a bit harder to set up, and unlike FeBuntu (as I
call it, or the more euphonious UbuDora, for the desktop type
distributions), it's very well documented, probably better than Fedora
or Ubuntu, and pretty straightforward.

Other options to try, puppy Linux which will definitely run, and run
well.

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