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to: Holger Granholm
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2011-10-03 11:04:00
subject: Re: New Ubuntu

-=> Holger Granholm wrote to Tom Walker <=-

 HG> Well, he refers to his "underpowered laptop" whatever that means.
 HG> I don't run any up-to-date hardware so it could be an exercise to try
 HG> Ubuntu again. Problem may be if the new Ubuntu cares for old hardware.


If you pick and choose what you run, Ubuntu can run nicely on any kind of 
hardware. Some Window managers run better on slower systems, and you can 
pare down what you're running with a little bit of work.

I have a 6 year old IBM Thinkpad (1.5 ghz Celeron, 1 GB RAM) that runs 
Ubuntu nicely.


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