<br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>a lot of it depends on ram... anything less than 128MB on most linux box's and you'll be hurting. processor speed is negligent on most systems however... but you may have to reduce certain graphical effects.
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On 7/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan Hartley</b> <<a href="mailto:nathan@ilothlorien.com" title="mailto:nathan@ilothlorien.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nathan@ilothlorien.com
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<br>"Ubuntu clearly requires something like a 1.5GHz CPU to operate decently."<br><br>Could also try XUbuntu, <a href="http://www.xubuntu.com/" title="http://www.xubuntu.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.xubuntu.com/</a>.<br><br>I have been trying for years to find a Linux distribution to replace Windows
<br>98 on my 200 MHz MMX 256 Mib machine and other machines that I am given to<br>refurbish. With all the Linux hype I figured it wouldn't be that difficult<br>to find a nice desktop operating system that would run as fast as Windows
<br>98. In the end only DSL ran decently but it was difficult for the wife and<br>kids to work with and so they never used it. I was pleasantly surprised when<br>XUbuntu booted up with it's simple, clean,<br>does-just-what-the-family-needs-it-to-do interface. And over all it runs
<br>comparable in speed to 98.<br><br><br> Nathan Hartley<br> <a href="http://iLothlorien.com" title="http://iLothlorien.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://iLothlorien.com</a>
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