Can Ubuntu 9.04 (from alternate CD) be installed on computer with Pentium 180 MHz and 32 Mb RAM? Or is it better to use another distribution of Linux?
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Can Ubuntu 9.04 (from alternate CD) be installed on computer with Pentium 180 MHz and 32 Mb RAM? Or is it better to use another distribution of Linux?
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You may want to install something lighter like Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux. You could probably run Ubuntu, but you'd need to do a customized install. I'd say install from a server disk (there's no GUI to start with) and add in a lighter desktop than XFCE, Gnome, or KDE. They all require more resources than you have in their current incarnations. I've been hearing good things about LXDE, but it's still in development.
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as chris said, dsl or puppy should be the best. or, you could try a debian minimal+xfce, or arch linux + xfce or some other lightweight DE.
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Try DeliLinux.
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Originally Posted by P_Aleksandrov
+1 vote for DeliLinux. I'm using Deli on a very old Pentium 200 MMX with 32 MB (Originally 16MB) RAM.
I tried a lot of distros before finally settling on Deli for this crappy machine. See a screenshot of it running in a virtual machine with only 12 MB RAM ! (Yes, TWELVE, not ONE-TWENTY-EIGHT). (I wanted to see how low I could go, 12 is the absolute minimum for GUI, otherwise I could go lower).
Last edited by prshah; July 28th, 2009 at 04:54 PM.
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For a small distribution, I like Siltaz. It has a very easy setup and sees wireless cards and printers without a lot of work.
http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/
Last edited by lindsay7; July 28th, 2009 at 04:47 PM.
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I forgot to say that I don't want to install any desktop environment on it. I want to install only samba and telnet servers (to access floppy disk drive and so on).
Last edited by P_Aleksandrov; July 28th, 2009 at 07:46 PM.
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Then just use the Ubuntu server installation disk. The Alt installation disk still installs a DE, it just uses a more basic* installer to get there. If you use the server disk, when the installation completes you will only have the cli unless you explicitly install a DE.
* "more basic" as in, not as graphical. It is still fully functional.
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