Running Ubuntu on 400Mhz

Strigare · 12-26-2005, 02:42 PM

I 've been thinking on installing Ubuntu on a IBM Thinkpad with 400Mhz and 256 ram. Will it run ok? or is it to much for the laptop?

Thanks in advance.

ricelover · 12-26-2005, 02:49 PM

The 256 will really help and probably make it doable. I put it on a 233 with 64 and it could barely run. Good luck!

Strigare · 12-26-2005, 02:51 PM

Thanks, anyone has any advice on how I can optimize ubuntu? maybe stripping out some software I don't really need...

I'm only going to use it for surfing and programming

djheadley · 12-26-2005, 06:40 PM

My machine is a 433 Mhz with 256mb RAM and it runs OK. The only problems I have had are not due to the slow system. The only things I can see where you might have problems would be the video drivers and modem. What make of laptop are you going to use?

Strigare · 12-26-2005, 07:16 PM

An IBM Thinkpad 600e.

Great to know it will work fine, are you using 5.10 o 5.04?

djheadley · 12-26-2005, 08:07 PM

Right now, 5.10 but I used to use 5.04. I tried 4.10 but it wouldn't recognize my sata card. Actually I dual boot with WinME.

sick-o-windoze · 12-27-2005, 07:53 AM

Download the live disk and try it out. I run 5.10 on various PIII 500mhz desktops and it works very well. 256 ram is fine--mine typically uses about 128Mb of memory with the Gnome loadeed and no applications open. I loaded extra stuff too, didn't even try to tune it.