[SWLUG] Hello SWLUG

[Mark Major]

Steve Anderson wrote:
> 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
>
>   
I would like to second that, I have Xubuntu running on an old Acer 506T 
laptop with 160mb ram no problems at all - I even got my belkin wifi 
dongle up and running in under 15 minutes on that setup, I would highly 
recommend it!

Mark Major