> They are both turn of the century technology (Year 2000) both AMD500 > 1 has CD writer/floppy/100MB zip, replaceable 20gig hd's, and 256MB mem > the other has 128MB mem, CD, floppy, fix 14GB HD. > > Here are my questions: > 1) If a Debian derivative (which I like because of apt-get) does the > current real or imagined troubles at Debian _Really_ affect Ubuntu? > 2) With older hardware does anyone see a problem? I haven't installed on a system with so little memory for a while, but assuming you use a text installer I don't think you should have a problem. For your desktop machine, you may want to look into something more lightweight than KDE or Gnome, since memory is limited. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss