Kubuntu on a Compaq Armada 1700 ?

[Greg Mueller]

A guy gave me Compaq Armada 1700 laptop that someone had screwewd up by trying to put XP on it. It kinda works but eventually screws up and it's reboot time.
I was thinking of trying to put Kubuntu on it. Or (if there's a difference) Ubuntu 12.04 with the KDE desk top.

Anyone had success with this combo?

[marco-parillo]

Here:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10011_div/10011_div.PDF
I read:

32-MB standard SDRAM, expandable up to 160 MB

I do not think you will be happy with *ANY* rich DE, let alone KDE.

[mastablasta]

heh, lubuntu or xubuntu then (depends on how much ram is in the mashicne)

actually KDE will work i think but you will need low-fat settings package (or turning off all special effects etc.)

[mörgæs]

Marco's right, there's no nope of getting a Buntu DE to run here in a decent speed.
You could use the computer for experimenting in a text-only system but it will not be able to surf the web, for example.

[mastablasta]

holy moly i thought that is graphics memorry. how could you install xp on that?

TinyCore, Slitaz might be an option. maybe DSL

[Greg Mueller]

I didn't do the XP install someone else did. I just got it that way.

[marco-parillo]

Marco's right, there's no nope of getting a Buntu DE to run here in a decent speed.
You could use the computer for experimenting in a text-only system but it will not be able to surf the web, for example.

Unless you use Lynx, right?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lynx

But, per your original post, Kubuntu looks hopeless to me.

[Greg Mueller]

Glad I didn't pay anything for it

[slooksterpsv]

XP, if nLited, without service packs and that, only requires 64MB of RAM. There was a special edition of XP that came out which only required 64-MB of RAM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...for_Legacy_PCs - There is is.

[Rob Sayer]

Yup, there's no ubuntu version (or any other fully featured distro) for that.

Here's part one of a rather good article on low memory usage linux (it's in 3 parts):

http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/1...inux-desktops/

It may seem relatively technical, but if you want to run linux in 64Mb you're going to have to get a little technical.