[SWLUG] Hello SWLUG

[Steve Anderson]

On 03/08/06, Kris Zani <kriszani at iscavision.com> wrote:

>  while ubuntu is friendly it is aimed at the same market as windows and as
> such requires a pretty hefty
>  amount of power to run well.  so if this old pc is not up to spec then
> everything could be going
>  wrong based on that.
>
>  Linux for older hardware - while possible is not newbie friendly and the
> distros for this purpose
>  are not very nice.

I'd like to take this opportunity to mention Xubuntu again =)
http://xubuntu.com/ I've got it running on a 400MHz PII with 160Mb of
RAM - it's acceptable on that and really nice on a 733MHz box I've
got.

Steve

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