Hardware Requirements

As with any computer software, you’ll have a better experience if you install and use Ubuntu on the most powerful system that you have available, but Ubuntu will technically still run fine (though slowly) on your dusty 25 MHz i386. However, the American national slogan is eminently true here: “More is better.” Taking off my Linux evangelist hat for a moment, you shouldn’t really bother trying to install and run Ubuntu on a system with a processor that runs slower than 166 MHz or which has less than 96MB of memory. I use a system with exactly those characteristics for testing purposes (an old IBM ThinkPad 380XD that I just can’t bear to part with), and GNOME is excruciating on that system. If you really need to run Ubuntu on such a system, see the note earlier in this section about alternate graphical environments for low-speed or low memory systems.

The minimum hardware requirements for installing Ubuntu and having a reasonable user experience are the following:

700 MHz or better processor

256MB of memory

CD-ROM drive

Ethernet interface

VGA graphics interface

3GB of available disk space

If your system satisfies or exceeds these, you’re good to go. You can certainly install Ubuntu on slower systems or systems with less memory, but that’s like putting racing slicks on a Hyundai—you’re not really going to get the most out of the experience.

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