I have Ubuntu in IBM ThinkPad 600X. 500MHz P3, 256Mb memory and 10G harddisk. I'm really happy with Ubuntus performance in this old work horse. And for my browsing needs I naturally use Firefox.
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I have Ubuntu in IBM ThinkPad 600X. 500MHz P3, 256Mb memory and 10G harddisk. I'm really happy with Ubuntus performance in this old work horse. And for my browsing needs I naturally use Firefox.
We have 5 computers operational in our house right now, ALL running Linux! My wife and son still work in Windose about 10% of the time due to education requirements! Myself and my daughter boot linux!
1, Nfs-Samba File Server - AMD Athlon XP 1800, 256MB, 30GB & 60GB ATA100 drives, RH9 Linux.
2. Emperor's Com-put-tor - AMD Athlon XP 1700, 256MB, 160GB & 30 GB ATA drives, Multi-boot - Win98, Win2000, RH9, FC1, FC2, ArchLinux, Ubuntu (set to auto-boot to Ubuntu!)
3. Wife's Computer - Dell Inspiron 1000 - Celeron 2 Ghz, 256MB, 30GB ATA100 drive, Dual Boot - WinXP Home & FC2.
4. Son's Computer - AMD Athlon XP 1700, 256MB, 60GB ATA100 drive, Dual-Boot - Win2000 & FC2
5.Daughter's Computer (she is 12!) - AMD Sampron 2200, 256MB, 20GB ATA100 drive, Ubuntu Liinux only!
Built all machines except, of course, the Dell Laptop! Have wired and wireless ethernet home network installed! Desktop screenshots can be seen on my website! Some would say I am having too much fun!
linxos.com hllug.org bubbasgeek.com
100% Linux/BSD @Home: Ubuntu -hp6810,Desktop,Server,MythTV. hpdm4. M0n0WALL -fw/router.
I wish I had five computers in my house. 8)
$ whatis themeaningoflife
themeaningoflife: not found
Amd Mobile Athlon XP-2600 based laptop. It has 256 MBs of memory and a 30 GB hard disk.
Primary computer:
IBM Thinkpad T42
512MB RAM
40GB HD
1.6G Centrino
Radeon 9000
14.1" 1024x668
Dual booting with XP SP2
Computer for wife & kids:
Shuttle SB65G2
512MB RAM
160GB HD
2.4Ghz Celeron D
Radeon 9600SE
Currently WinXP
My notebook is dual booting XP & Ubuntu with a shared Fat32 partition. I think I'll add an Ubuntu partition to the fam computer too. Too bad I have to use SUSE install to do the partitioning first.
My pc I built a while ago...
Soyo SY-7VCA Motherboard
933 mhz Intel Pent. 3 (Overclocked to 1130)
Chaintech Geforce MX 440 (Overclocked also)
384 megs SD-RAM
Western Digital 20 gig Hardrive
C-Media Sound Card.
With Ubuntu only. Used to Dual boot with Win 2k. But don't need to because of Ubuntu.
I remember when this pc was top of the line... I would build another one but it gets everything done and runs good.
Last edited by jayclark; October 24th, 2004 at 03:16 PM.
Dell inspiron 8000
1Ghz INTEL cpu
wireless Dlink card
20gig hd
nvidia gfx
256 ram
Athlon XP 2500+
256 MB RAM
80 GB HD
GeForce FX 5200
Audigy 2
Dual between Ubuntu and XP.
Wanting to get my hands on an iBook though....
sounds like fun. how does your wife handle it? my girlfriend was already fed up when i was on my quest for my perfect distroOriginally Posted by emperor
Barton 2600+
Shuttle mn31n
512 Ram
GeForce MX 440 (no gaming here)
atheros wireless (g)
Using linux exclusively since January 04, using Ubuntu exclusively since October 04!
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