XUbuntu Linux running with 256Mb RAM

This screencast demonstrates a lightweight desktop Linux running in a virtual machine with just 256 Mb of memory.

The music is "Move Your Body", by Electric Funky ( http://www.jamendo.com/ ).

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Science & Technology

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• linux
• desktop
• ubuntu
• xubuntu
• 256
• 512
• mb
• 256mb
• ram
• screencast
• windows
• windows7

[YouMockMe]

so what is the real difference between xubuntu and ubuntu?

elighten me, please, anyone... thank you

[obviocapitao]

Ubuntu uses GNOME desktop manager, which requires 384 MB RAM. It also comes with OpenOffice which requires 256 MB RAM.

XUbuntu uses XFCE desktop manager, which requires 192 MB RAM. It is much simpler than GNOME, but looks good -- as you can see in the video. It comes with Abiword, which requires just 16MB RAM, Gnumeric, etc.

The real minimum configuration would be with no desktop manager -- recommended for servers -- which will require just 32 MB RAM.

[soldierjohny69]

What verison of Xubuntu did you run?

[obviocapitao]

I was using XUbuntu 8.10

I repeated the test now, with 9.04, and found interesting things. I will post a new video soon.

[platformicon]

Great video - I haven't tried virtualization yet, but you just pushed me closer to looking into it, now that I know my dated 1.5 GB system might have the guts for it.

On another note, not to be overly-critical, but I should point out that I think you mean "256 MB" as opposed to "256 Mb" as indicated in the title. The latter is 256 Million bits while the former is 256 Million Bytes (8 times the volume); hence, 256 Mb is only equivalent to 32 MB. ;-)

[obviocapitao]

I strongly recommend trying virtualization. It is the best way to test several operating systems.

(I use VMWare on Mac and VirtualBox on Linux; both work very well.)

[antifrituras]

xubuntu it's the best... i'm using it. it was something difficult at the starting, but now i'm not noob. i love it. it's so fast. i use blender.... it's so fast at the renderization. xcfe it's much better than gnome.

[kenzeus]

@Gameplayvidyas  My Firefox taking now only 500 mb. I have over 60 tabs open ;)

[thenatobourne]

this is a old xubuntu, but now the xubuntu 11.10 is slow

[1maxroman]

besides, it is VM. I give my VM 1GB of ram, and I hate how slaggy it is.

[1maxroman]

:) well, I had my 256MB desktop running windowsXP until 2 years ago. and I played Need for Speed, Counter Strike and Warcraft 3 on it.. is opening firefox in Linux really making a good impression? hm..

[basbas63]

@obviocapitao Actually i got ubuntu the version with the gnome desktop manager runnig on 256mb.. and everything works fine, even open office and so on.. anyways nice vid (=

[Laoch111]

Xubuntu is very much underrated. It is a great OS.

[rvngizswt]

Will my graphics card handle it? Most linux distros make my screen get rainbow stripes and freeze up. I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M.

[Hector3Dman]

so pretty.....

[llDellMango]

how much ram does xubuntu reqiure to run?

[SchokoKeksMaster]

Don´t forget that there is a potent Host System in the Background.

So using Virtual Machines are not very good at comparing speed. (The Memory of the Host System is used for Disk Cache etc.)