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Requirements

Ubuntulite runs LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, by default. It has been extensively tested under some hardware configurations for how well it runs. The following results have been taken from LXDE's website at About LXDE.

CPU RAM Hard Drive Speed
Pentium 2 266Mhz 192MB 5400 rpm Moderate to Fast
Via 400Mhz 256MB 5400 rpm Moderate to Fast
Pentium 3 600Mhz 512MB 4500 rpm Fast
QEMU emulation on AMD Athlon 1.6 128MB QEMU disk image Fast
AMD Athlon 1.6 512MB 7200 rpm Very Fast

Recommended configuration

  • Pentium 2 or better
  • 96MB of RAM or better
  • 4GB Hard Drive or better