512M is about the minimum that I would try and use.  It will work, but 
you will find that most modern browsers will tend to eat all that RAM up 
immediately.  The machine is going to swap a lot.  You would be much 
better off with 1G or more if possible.
The biggest problem is that old RAM costs a LOT more than the newer 
types of RAM on the market and often times a small RAM upgrade on an 
older machine will exceed the worth of the machine.
If Stephen can find some RAM for this machine I would jump on it.  I'll 
bet it feels like a brand new machine with a decent amount of RAM in it.

Brian Cluff

On 09/19/2012 06:21 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> What is the minimum ram required for kubuntu?
>
> Some online sources say it should run okay with 512-meg of ram.
>
> I'm trying to set up an old Dell for a friend and since I can't seem to
> get win-xp wireless to work, thought I'd try kubuntu.  The unit has only
> 512-meg of ram and when I tried a live kubuntu CD, it worked okay, albeit
> slow. So I installed it on half the HD as a dual-boot and it runs, but
> very slow and it hangs up.  Is there some way to salvage this old box?
>
>
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