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I am currently using XP Pro with service pack 3 on my PC. Over the years I have tried several versions of Ubuntu and have always had to go back to XP Pro. While XP Pro seems to work fine, I am always drawn to Ubuntu for some reason. Maybe it is because of the features etc... I would like some advice as to whether I should install Ubuntu 10.04 on my PC. My PC is circa 2002 with 512MB or RAM and an 80GB HD. I don't want to spend any money upgrading this old PC.
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Perhaps give the light-weight spin-off "Lubuntu" a go (http://lubuntu.net/). It's based around the relatively new LXDE Desktop Environment. I've not tried it yet, but it's supposed to run well on slightly older hardware, and you'll still be running the latest *buntu release. Hope that helps. Graham |
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I've got Ubuntu on a dual-core Sony laptop with 1GB RAM, and it's fine. On the other hand, my old Pentium3 laptop wouldn't install the same Ubuntu edition - something about the disk format I think, so I've got it running Linux Mint Fluxbox (Flux is just another desktop manager), and it seems happy. I've also looked at Puppy and Damn Small Linux - very impressive what they squeeze into about 100MB! cheers, Jon. |
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Depends on the CPU Sorry, forgot the rest.. Personally, I've found that this revision (Ubuntu 10.04) of Linux runs REALLY slick. If it were me, I would give it a shot and see if it runs to your liking. For someone wanting to learn Linux or have never used Linux before, I would tell them to use Ubuntu. Before you took the dive though, I would check to make sure that all the programs you need are able to run off of the Linux platform.
(03 May '10, 20:36)
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Others will have to address whether your computer will handle Ubuntu 10.04, but if you enjoy using linux you can also try PuppyLinux or Damn Small Linux, both of which should work. I use ubuntu as my regular system now after having used XP for years. Ubuntu is great, though not without its own issues. Puppy is lightning quick and just fine for surfing the internet, creating word processing documents, and running spreadsheets. Best wishes. |
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I don't think the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 will run very effectively on a computer circa 2002, the latest Ubuntu release is targeted at competing with the most current operating system releases. Perhaps a previous release would be a better choice You might be able to turn some of the Graphical features off and then 10.04 would run fine, posting the CPU / memory/front side bus/ back side bus / motherboard chip-set / video card specifications might garnish responses from people running similar platforms . my bigger question is .... what made you revert to XP Pro sp3 last time ? Ubuntu may not be headed in a direction that will ever allow you to switch, for example I run 1 Microsoft OS simply because I need to run several programs that are only available on that platform, and there aren't any plans for Open source equivalents. |
You have a few options here. There is a version of Linux based on Ubuntu and Debian called Easy Peasy. You could also run any of the following 32 bit systems. Trisquel 3.5, Ubuntu 7.04LTS, Pardus 2009.1, just to name a few. If you go to http://distrowatch.com you can look at various Linux OS's and a few Open Source Software (OSS). The descriptions of each will give you what is required to run a system. 512MB of RAM will run most Linux OSS. I HOPE this HELPS.
I forgot another option is Mint 8. I know it will run on your computer.
You have the same name as my father.
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 in VMware Fusion on my Mac. Looks good. Now I have to mke up my mind whether to install it on my PC again. I don't use any specialized software on my PC that is only XP or Windows centrix so I think I should be OK.
Ubuntu runs with a smaller memory footprint than Windows XP anything. The Linux kernel can run as small as 256kb while the Windows kernel runs no smaller than about 18MB which is 18432kb... Linux runs faster than XP and is also truly multithreaded where XP tends to attach itself to every process in the system causing lockups, freezing, and crashing. I've seen Linux systems up for over a year at a time without any need to be rebooted or shutdown. If you are on Windows it's like you have to pack up and move your office every few days... just brutal..
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