about the latest ubuntu

[Alex Snow]

I'm running gnome on a 1ghz pIII with 256mb and its not all that bad.
On 
Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:48:31PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> This will be OK for Speakup and the console, but I suspect it will prove
> quite sluggish for Gnome. I suspect your RAM will be pretty much
> consumed before you've even launched applications judging from the
> memory usage I'm seeing on my laptop.
> 
> PS: My X31 is just over 1Gb cpu but a P4 with 1Gb RAM. It's adequate,
> but I would not call it snappy.
> 
> Brent Harding writes:
> > It's a Pentium 3, 1 gig machine with 256 mb of ram, 2 hard drives, one 30 
> > gigs, and the other around 6.4 gigs.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > You didn't tell us all the specs on the hardware, but it sounds like you 
> > > don't have the resources to run the Ubuntu livecd.
> > >
> > > Remember, Gnome will need a lot of ram and processor speed to be useful.
> > >
> > >          Kenny
> > >
> > >
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