[LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

[Peter Besenbruch]

> Peter Besenbruch wrote:
>> The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for 
>> Ubuntu, that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going 
>> strong for two years. 
Jim Thompson wrote:

> 512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not.

> I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had 
> belonged to my step mother.)  It has 256MB and a 1GHz p3.  Neither 
> Ubuntu or kubuntu would successfully install on it.

Debian installs fine with 256 meg. KDE runs as well, once installed. Is 
it the extra overhead of the live CD?

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