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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:44:06 +0000
alan c <aeclist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 
> My experience yesterday with a faster machine, Pentium II 400 128MB
> ram, strongly suggests to me that even if I could magically get the
> P5-120 installing Lubuntu 12.04, then it would not be a practical machine.
> 
> Is it heresy to think that
> 1) there might be  almost no non pae  machines  out there
> 2) that PII (happens to be pae ok) 400 128MB is a practical minimum spec?
> 
>From my experience, that is about the minimum spec.  I have run Lubuntu on a 266 Mhz machine with 384 MiB of RAM and that was quite usable.  I currently have a 2.4 Ghz P4 machine with 256 MiB of RAM and a 500Mhz PIII with 640 MiB RAM side-by-side and the user experience is about the same.  

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Yorvyk