Curious. What can I do with Ubuntu? I have a Mac with Safari and it also has Win XP with IE and Safari. Should I bother to play with Ubuntu? Would it work on an old laptop currently running Win ME?
How old,..?
.might do better with some of the lighter ones like Puppy Linux,...SLAX,...DSL,...Zenwalk,...there are lots more.I think Mepis has a lite version....antiX or something like that...
.That might be a good place to start....
It might, but it would be slow. I'm running Kubuntu on a machine ca 2002 or so. 1.1 GHz, 512 MB RAM and it runs acceptably well -- with a low-end graphics accelerator (without it, well, OpenOffice and some other apps are horribly slow).
As somebody else said, you might want to try a lighter-weight distro. I put Xubuntu on an old Win98 machine (500+ MHz, 256M RAM) and it runs reasonably. And with FAR better support for the WiFi card than the Win support that came with the card!
Puppy Linux will work with you in an interesting interactive way ...
Phoronix has some benchmarks,.....
Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X
Published on May 18, 2009