> I looked at your website and saw that you install Ubuntu on Pentium I's. I
> was wondering what the specs on those machines are (i.e. memory, etc.).
> Also, which windows manager do you use for them?

The one I'm working on right now has 64 Mb of RAM, and a 1.8Gb HD. I
have a bag of RAM I haven't looked through thourogly yet, I hope to
have at least 128 Mb in it before I give it away.

I'm still working out the best software combo at the moment, but
here's where I'm at right now. I do a server install, since it's much
smaller, and doesn't include OOo, Gnome etc. I then install
xubuntu-desktop[*], which seems to work pretty well.

Load time of programs is pretty bad, but once they're loaded, they
runs fine. I've only tried running one program at a time.

When you do the install, you probably want to manually adjust the
partition sizes. the debian installer uses some formula that involves
the amount of RAM to determine the swap partition size. The amount it
decides on always seems too small to me, so I increase it.

[*] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu
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