How An Old Pentium 4 System Runs With Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10

“Last October I wrote about running Ubuntu 9.10 with older PC
hardware, but over this past weekend I restored an even older
Phoronix test system to see how it runs with the most recent Ubuntu
10.04 LTS release and the very latest Ubuntu 10.10 development
snapshot in relation to the older Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS. This
antiquated system has an Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM,
an 80GB IDE hard drive, and an ATI Radeon 9200PRO AGP graphics
card.

“The complete list of system components for this retired test
system include an Abit SG72 motherboard with SiS 661FX chipset, an
Intel Pentium 4 C 2.80GHz CPU with Hyper Threading, 512MB of
DDR-400 system memory, an 80GB Western Digital WD800JB-00ET hard
drive, and an ATI Radeon 9200PRO (0x9560) graphics card. First this
system was tested with a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
boasting the Linux 2.6.24 kernel, GNOME 2.22.3, X.Org Server
1.4.0.90, xf86-video-radeon 4.3.0, Mesa 7.0.3-rc2, GCC 4.2.4, and
an EXT3 file-system. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was tested with its Linux
2.6.32 kernel, GNOME 2.30.0 desktop, X.Org Server 1.7.6,
xf86-video-radeon 6.13.0, GCC 4.4.3, Mesa 7.7.1, and an EXT4
file-system. Lastly, the Ubuntu 10.10 snapshot from 2010-07-11
contained the Linux 2.6.35 kernel, GNOME 2.30.2, X.Org Server 1.8.2
RC2, xf86-video-radeon 6.13.1, GCC 4.4.4, and an EXT4
file-system.”

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