[LUAU] Price of freedom is a $50 saving

[Jim Thompson]

Peter Besenbruch wrote:
>> 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?

possibly.

The 'issue' is that the most of the folks at whom Ubuntu is aimed won't 
be able to install KDE on a running debian system.

None of them will be running 'debbootstrap' by hand.

jim