<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><h3 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" id="requirements"><font size="3">Xubuntu is Ubuntu with Xfce desktop environment. <br></font></h3><h3 id="requirements">Minimum system requirements</h3>
<p>You need 192 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte" title="Click here to find out what a megabyte is">MB</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM" title="Click here to find out what Random Access Memory is">RAM</a> to run the Live CD or 128 MB RAM to install. The Alternate Install CD only requires you to have 64 MB RAM at install time.</p>
<p>To install Xubuntu, you need 1.5 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte" title="Click here to find out what a gigabyte is">GB</a> of free space on your hard disk.</p>
<p>Once installed, Xubuntu can run with starting from 192 (or even just
128) MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM.</p><p><br></p><p>Yigal<br></p><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 11/28/09, Omer Zak <i><w1@zak.co.il></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Omer Zak <w1@zak.co.il><br>Subject: Memory economical Linux installation?<br>To: "linux-il" <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il><br>Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 1:13 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I was contacted by someone, who has an old laptop with 192MB memory, and<br>wants to install Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) on it.<br><br>I advised him to first upgrade the memory to at least 512MB.<br><br>However, as an alternative to upgrading the laptop, I'd like to know if<br>and which distributions and desktops being actively maintained are<br>economical in memory usage yet provide X-Window in some form.<br><br>Thanks,<br>--- Omer<br><br><br><br>-- <br>My Commodore 64
is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory;<br>and its display device is grievously short of pixels. Can anyone help?<br>My own blog is at <a href="http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/" target="_blank">http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/</a><br><br>My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone.<br>They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which<br>I may be affiliated in any way.<br>WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at <a href="http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html" target="_blank">http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Linux-il mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" href="/mc/compose?to=Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il">Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il</a><br><a href="http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il" target="_blank">http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>