{"id":396,"date":"2026-06-30T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:24:34","slug":"linux-lubuntu-system-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/30\/linux-lubuntu-system-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: Lubuntu: system requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution. What exactly are its requirements?<\/h3>\n<p>\nThe following is my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve loaded Lubuntu on numerous computers. To my knowledge, it&#8217;s got everything a user would typically need. One of my &#8220;daily driver&#8221; PCs is Lubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>\nLubuntu, 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.<\/p>\n<p>\nRight now I&#8217;m running a fresh install of Lubuntu, with no user-created files as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor 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 &asymp; 1.07G)<\/p>\n<p>\nThis PC is from 2017, but on Lubuntu it&#8217;s as zippy as one of the i5 PCs I use, from 2022, that are running Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lubuntu.me\/\">lubuntu.me<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/invgate.com\/itdb\/lubuntu-24\">invgate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/50804915\/kubernetes-size-definitions-whats-the-difference-of-gi-and-g\">stackoverflow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/cpu-specs\/a6-9225-soc.c3696\">techpowerup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\">-js<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution. What exactly are its requirements? The following is my understanding. I&#8217;ve loaded Lubuntu on numerous computers. To my knowledge, it&#8217;s got everything a user would typically need. One of my &#8220;daily driver&#8221; PCs is Lubuntu. Lubuntu, it seems, has the following basic requirements: 1GB Ram, 1GHz speed, and 10GB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[113,115],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-lubuntu","tag-system-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apropostechsolutionscorp.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}