Lighter in CPU/Memory Usage: Lubuntu or Xubuntu
- by Luis Alvarado
I am looking for an Ubuntu version that consumes less Memory and CPU. I have read both Lubuntu and Xubuntu (The homepages, wikipedia, phoronix and other sites comparing both). But from experience, which one uses less memory and is less CPU intensive. I need to install them in very old hardware and want to persuade the owner of the hardware of the benefits of Ubuntu.
in this case I want to install 11.10 or 12.04 when it comes out. How are each behaving in those versions?
The 2 PCs I will be installing either Xubuntu or Lubuntu are:
Granpa PC:
CPU - Pentium 2 450Mhz
RAM - 64MB DIMM
Video - 16MB
Used for - Documents and Internet. No listening to music, no looking at videos. Just using it for document writing.
The other old meat:
CPU - Pentium 3 550Mhz
RAM - 128MB DIMM
Video - 16MB
Used for - Documents and Internet also but they want.. or maybe they are wishing for it to use it to see movies and listen to music. This one has internet. The other one does not.
