King X13
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Some of you may have seen me posting about Ubuntu cuz ive been trying to play with it to put it into play along side my windows network. ive gotten it to work fine on my upper end systems so i pulled a system out from the back room. a Dell optiplex GX1.
now the min specs it says for ubuntu is a intel 100 with 64 megs of ram. This is a p2 with 128 megs so i should be more then fine.
So my frist attempt fails with an I/O error on HDC, find out its the CD drive, so i grab one out of another machine and i can finally boot into the gui that runs off the CD.
Then the system Hangs and after double clicking the Install Icon and waiting 15 min and nothing happening, then even right clicking and opening the install icon and waiting 15 min and nothing happens. i then up the memory to 256.
So my 3rd try with about 4 times the amout of min memory needed, and a cd drive far beyond what a intel 100 system would have my install is going, and at a very very slow pace.
Im not understanding the false minimum specs for ubuntu. Now it runs 800 times better on a p4 then windows in my opinion. but its rumored to be this cure for old system that newer windows just wouldnt fuction on and im left surprised that it runs the same way if not slower on an older system then windows.
Idk any thoughts from anyone?
now the min specs it says for ubuntu is a intel 100 with 64 megs of ram. This is a p2 with 128 megs so i should be more then fine.
So my frist attempt fails with an I/O error on HDC, find out its the CD drive, so i grab one out of another machine and i can finally boot into the gui that runs off the CD.
Then the system Hangs and after double clicking the Install Icon and waiting 15 min and nothing happening, then even right clicking and opening the install icon and waiting 15 min and nothing happens. i then up the memory to 256.
So my 3rd try with about 4 times the amout of min memory needed, and a cd drive far beyond what a intel 100 system would have my install is going, and at a very very slow pace.
Im not understanding the false minimum specs for ubuntu. Now it runs 800 times better on a p4 then windows in my opinion. but its rumored to be this cure for old system that newer windows just wouldnt fuction on and im left surprised that it runs the same way if not slower on an older system then windows.
Idk any thoughts from anyone?