Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb

By: Not particularly worried « Motho ke motho ka botho

Not particularly worried « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:38:38 +0000

[...] really, I’ve installed Ubuntu in earlier releases on the same machine, and the results are likewise “meager” or “mild.” Ubuntu doesn’t [...]

By: A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:23:43 +0000

[...] will be my next step, as soon as I get done typing this. Adding memory was liberating for this machine in the sense that it opened the choice of distros quite a bit. But after that, [...]

By: Links 17/1/2010: New Pardus, Puredyne GNU/Linux | Boycott Novell

Links 17/1/2010: New Pardus, Puredyne GNU/Linux | Boycott Novell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:33:08 +0000

[...] Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb Ordinarily Ubuntu and Debian won’t even install on 16Mb of memory — the installer program (yes, even the floppy-based installer program) crashes and burns without 32Mb of memory. In fact, neither OS will even boot without 20-30Mb of memory, regardless of how you get the system on there. (It’s always possible that different architectures have different memory demands; perhaps a different machine could boot on less.) [...]

By: rtorrent demands on very old hardware « Motho ke motho ka botho

rtorrent demands on very old hardware « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:39:57 +0000

[...] with 80Mb of memory. Here’s a little picture of rtorrent with htop running alongside it in Ubuntu 9.10, so you can get a mental picture of what’s [...]

By: Jacob Blackwood

Jacob Blackwood — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:29:07 +0000

Deli Linux is supposed to install with 8 Megs of ram from what I have read.