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  • Linux: Lubuntu: system requirements

    Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution. What exactly are its requirements?

    The following is my understanding.

    I’ve loaded Lubuntu on numerous computers. To my knowledge, it’s got everything a user would typically need. One of my “daily driver” PCs is Lubuntu.

    Lubuntu, it seems, has the following basic requirements: 1GB Ram, 1GHz speed, and 10GB hard drive. Yet, 2-4 GB Ram, 2GHz speed with dual-core, and 20GB is recommended.

    Right now I’m running a fresh install of Lubuntu, with no user-created files as of yet.

    For this PC, the CPU max speed 2.6GHz, with five cores: 2C+3G. df -h suggests the installation is 8.1GB, while free -h suggests RAM usage of 1.8Gi, with another 2.4Gi used for caching. (1Gi ≈ 1.07G)

    This PC is from 2017, but on Lubuntu it’s as zippy as one of the i5 PCs I use, from 2022, that are running Windows 11.

    Source:

    lubuntu.me

    invgate.com

    stackoverflow.com

    techpowerup.com

    -js

  • Web, Linux: lightweight browsers, part0

    Especially with Linux on an old computer, one might seek a lightweight browser.

    The following is by my understanding.

    I loaded Lubuntu onto a Vista-era computer two days back; perhaps I will mention more about that in another post. However, for earlier mention of Lubuntu, there is my post from June 19, 2026.

    Lubuntu comes with Firefox. On this Vista-era computer, which runs Lubuntu fine, Firefox takes a few seconds, after clicking, to load, but it does. However, a given web page might take a good deal longer to load – perhaps ten seconds or much more.

    I looked into lightweight browsers and loaded Falkon. While I was impressed with its minimal design, the web pages didn’t seem to load faster on it. Falkon seemed to work about as well as Firefox.

    It seems to me that a lightweight browser won’t solve the problem of navigating the web on a slow computer, because the web pages typically use a lot more resources than the browser itself does. High-resolution images and JavaScript, both on the page itself and in subframes, can easily bog down an old computer.

    -js