OK, might be ...
When installing one gets a screen in which the minimum requirements are mentioned. If I remember correctly it says that you need a minimumum of 3.5 GiB.
I agree that it is only slightly less than the 4 GiB available. I recommend 10.04 though, as it is also LTS and supported for 3 years (from april 2010).
But still: that someone might be right
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