Should I upgrade on an old system?

[MikeND05]

While waiting to buy a new graphics card for my desktop, I'm using my old laptop that chugs along at a not-terrible rate on Gutsy. It's Pentium III, 256 mb. Would upgrading the distro be wise on such a slow system, or is Hardy (or 8.10) actually faster?

Thanks.

[T2manner]

Well..
Intrepid Ibex is the newest version.
I would upgrade to that and if it's to slow then try out Xubuntu which works great on slow computers :]

[redseventyseven]

What are the specs of your machine?

If you can bear to live without Gnome or KDE you could always try Xubuntu.

[redseventyseven]

Well..
Intrepid Ibex is the newest version.
I would upgrade to that and if it's to slow then try out Xubuntu which works great on slow computers :]

I'm not sure I would agree with the first part of this - Intrepid Ibex may well be the newer version but Hardy is the current version with long-term support. That may be more valuable than having the absolute latest gizmos on an old machine IMO.

[oilchangeguy]

While waiting to buy a new graphics card for my desktop, I'm using my old laptop that chugs along at a not-terrible rate on Gutsy. It's Pentium III, 256 mb. Would upgrading the distro be wise on such a slow system, or is Hardy (or 8.10) actually faster?

Thanks.

if it ain't broke, don't fix it. newer operating system = needs more powerful computer (ubuntu).

[ichi@YUKI]

What are the minimum specs recommended for running the latest releases?.. i'm still on Gutsy as of the moment.

[Miljet]

I have to agree with RedSeventySeven on this. You will have about 5 more months support for Gutsy. If yo plan to replace or upgrade within that time frame, I would just stick with Gutsy. I would suspect that on that old a machine, you don't have a very large hard disk. But if you do have enough space, it would be worth installing 8.04 in a separate partition to see if it will work. That would give you a longer support time frame.

[oilchangeguy]

What are the minimum specs recommended for running the latest releases?.. i'm still on Gutsy as of the moment.

see www.ubuntu.com

[MikeND05]

If you can bear to live without Gnome or KDE you could always try Xubuntu.

What would the primary differences be? I'm still fairly new at this...

[Living2007]

While waiting to buy a new graphics card for my desktop, I'm using my old laptop that chugs along at a not-terrible rate on Gutsy. It's Pentium III, 256 mb. Would upgrading the distro be wise on such a slow system, or is Hardy (or 8.10) actually faster?

Thanks.

Because newer OS require more memory and CPU, i would say no.
but go for Xubuntu 8.10.

Xubuntu uses at least 192 MB