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mahela007
January 6th, 2009, 01:22 PM
I am going to install xubuntu on a celeron 1.3 GHz processor. Will the installation be OK?

lswest
January 6th, 2009, 01:24 PM
more important than the CPU is the RAM. You can run linux distributions on 350MHz computers (if you expect some lagging to occur) and if you choose the right distribution for such a low-end system. 1.3GHz should be fine.

abn91c
January 6th, 2009, 01:29 PM
1.3GHz will be enough, get more RAM if you can. I installed ubuntu 8.10 on a 400Mhz with 512mb ram and it ran OK

jakeofspades
January 6th, 2009, 01:47 PM
(although Xubuntu is ideal for systems with little ram)

jfr1tz
January 6th, 2009, 02:17 PM
ran (x)ubuntu on a 1Ghzp3/265Mb system, it sortof works. Memory was the real limiting factor there, as soon as i ran out extensive swapping made the machine unusable.I'd propably still be using it if it had more ram.

spcwingo
January 6th, 2009, 07:15 PM
I'm running full Ubuntu install on a Celeron 1Ghz overclocked to 1.2Ghz with 1GB ram. In my opinion it runs fine. I also had no problems with the install so I'm assuming that xubuntu will be the same.

grognut
January 6th, 2009, 08:13 PM
Hi,

I'm running 6.06.1 on a mini itx EPIA 533MHz with 500Mb of ram.
I had no problems installing except for a dodgy cd payer. Ithink I only had 256k when I did the install.

The desktop is a bit sluggish but tolerable. Heavy weight work such as compiling is slow.

I'm also serving graphs through apache2 with php gd-graph with data from mysql but it is very slow but they are large tables (100K entries). I'm sorting out an update to 8.04 to try mono and c#. If this is slow then it's back to c and cgi.
A normal html page is very quick.

The main advantage is that the server runs on 18W so I don't feel guilty about leaving it on all the time.

Hope this helps.

grognut