about the latest ubuntu

[John Heim]

I suspect your problem is that ubuntu is running out of RAM. I have a 1 Ghz 
P3 machine with 512 RAM. But ubuntu didn't work until I bumpted it up from 
256 to 512. RAM for a machine like that is cheap. I got mine for free from 
someone who was throwing out an old computer.  If you can get to a used 
computer store, you should be able to bump your machine up to 512 for ten 
bucks.

Even if you get it working, it will be painfully slow. You could experiment 
with orca on a machine like that but it will be too slow to use for real.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: about the latest ubuntu


> 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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