[lotuseclat79]

Ubuntu Minimum Requirements.

Chart compares: Ubuntu 9.04, Xubuntu 9.04, Server 8.04 in terms of Hard Drive (space), CPU (speed), RAM (size) - minimum requiements, and has a link to a nice discussion.

-- Tom

[tomdkat]

Speaking of system requirements, I recently installed Xubuntu 9.04 on a 1GHz Celeron based system with 384MB of RAM that was running Windows 2000. I was hoping to run Xubuntu instead of Windows 2000 so we wouldn't have to run protective software which would compete for the precious system resources we would rather allocate to multimedia software.

The system is used as a very low end multimedia system, used to stream Internet radio and play it back over a home theater system and to view online video archives from TV broadcasts and possibly save them for later playback.

Xubuntu installed just fine once I installed it from a GOOD CD drive. However, I soon learned the Adobe Flash player is just not reliable enough and it worked better than the open source Flash alternatives. *sigh*

The Adobe Flash plugin runs smooth as silk on Windows 2000 so I guess we'll stick with that.

Peace...

[lotuseclat79]

Hi tomdkat,

What's not reliable about Adobe Flash player on Xubuntu?

I run Shockwave Flash (as plugin) in Firefox 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala):
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

It seems reliable.

Are you talking about gnash as the open source Flash alternative? Is there a good tutorial on installing it - I don't seem to have ever been able to get it to work.

-- Tom

[tomdkat]

I tried playing the live feed of a radio station and playback using the Adobe Flash player was choppy. Using the SWFDec player or Gnash were worse in that I couldn't get any sound at all. However, using the Adobe Flash player on Windows 2000 played the audio from the same radio station feed just fine, no issues.

In both cases, I used the 32-bit Adobe 10 Flash player.

Peace...