On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:54:03 -0500, Bruce Byfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 09:21 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
Gilles SICHE wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I intend to buy a *cheap* laptop on which I'd like to run a linux
> distribution (Ubuntu) and OpenOffice 2 : could anyone tell me what are
> the
> minimum requirements (RAM, processor speed...) necessary for the
> system to
> run reasonably quickly?
You can get away with a 500Mhz processor. You need a bit of RAM though -
I'd say a minimum of 192MB. I've run OOo on a Linux system with a 500Mhz
processor with 128MB ( in our sales department ), and I remember
thinking "Damn. This needs more memory".
It depends a lot on how you set things up. Use the Reiser filesystem,
and shut down a few extras like multiple workspaces, and a 500Mhz
processor with 128MB RAM runs Ubuntu fairly well. You'll notice that OOo
takes a long time to start, but, in general, performance is acceptable.
Minumum can be a Pentium 2 ideally a Pentium III or Celeron at 1Ghz the
most important part is ram so with 250 you are all set.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Grupo de Usuarios Linux Tabasco
http://www.gultab.org
OpenOffice.org
Community Contact // Mexico
http://www.openoffice.org
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