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[Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't tried with 12.04 but during 11.10 I broke out an old PII 333mHz w/256MB RAM and it barely worked. When I say barely, I mean it was almost painful :^/

Puppy, in particular "macpup", was a much better fit on that old dog.

One of the reasons I haven't tried it this time is because the old "bigfoot" drive finally seems to have died, but I did boot it up once just to see if it had a pae flag.

I rather think we should be very modest with what we'll support. Certainly anything below 512MB RAM should either install from the alt image, or skip the live DE and install selecting "install" from the boot menu of the live CD.

Beyond that I'm not sure how low we can go in specs. I'll bet I can still get that old PII to run Lubuntu but not nearly as well as some flavor of Puppy .............. honesty is always the best policy ;^)

Lance

--- On Sat, 4/21/12, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] System Requirements
To: lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 2:10 PM

On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:06:58 -0400
Karl Anliot <kanliot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't know how you got lubuntu into 64M of RAM, but is it alright
> with you, Ali, if I put 96 as the minimum requirement on the wiki?
> 
I ran Lubuntu in 32 MB RAM once.  It was really really really really sloooooooooooooooooooooow!  Toke about 10-15 mins to launch an app, if I remember rightly.


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Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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