[Wolves] how low can Linux go?

[baza]

David Goodwin wrote:

> baza wrote:
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>> As part of this community project I'm working on we want to install 
>> Linux (Ubuntu) on donated PC's. This is to save the Microsoft licence 
>> fee.
>>
>> An issue we need to work out is what is the MINIMUM speck Linux will 
>> run on, using Gnome? Most of the business donated PC's are running 
>> 64meg ram, which I figure is way to small. But to keep costs down we 
>> don't really want to have to convert them into 'Uber Boxs' to run Linux.
>>
>> So, what is the smallest hard drive and RAM we can get away with?
>>
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> A better question is how _slow_ can you afford for them to be?
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'Reasonable'.  The  performance  is  less  of  an  issue.  We  can,  
'overclock'  them a  bit  too.

Baza