Yesterday I posted about my new experiment to see if Ubuntu Linux, was really ready to start delivering the goods. So let's start with the machine that this little experiment will take place on.
The machine is Dell Inspiron 531S (I known buying big box bad, but it was really cheap)
This little machine holds AMD64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ processor, 512MB of RAM, 56k modem, built in Ethernet, on board sound, and on board video. It comes with Windows Vista Basic installed on it.
Yeah... so a nice little setup for a Linux box, but definitely not Vista ready. Seriously Windows Vista is REALLY slow on this machine. I'm sure it has everything to do with the machine only having 512 MB of RAM, but that should be good enough to run Ubuntu pretty smoothly. However, I really wish that Dell would have put XP on this machine instead. Today I'll start the install of Ubuntu and see if it can live up to the hype.
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