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    CF-27 & Ubuntu

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Wes Medlin, Mar 25, 2011.

  1. Wes Medlin

    Wes Medlin Notebook Enthusiast

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    I swapped out the hard drive of my CF-27 MK II last night, and put in one that I thought had Xubuntu on it. I know the 27 will run that. But at some point, I had apparently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on that drive. I was shocked to find it would boot and run on my old 300 mz 192 meg Cf-27.

    I played around with it for a while, and everything seems to work. It's not blazingly fast, but for a 12 year old computer running the latest OS, I was quite impressed. Anyone else done this?
     
    Wes Medlin, Mar 25, 2011
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  2. Dr Blood

    Dr Blood Notebook Geek

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    Ubuntu 6.06 works perfectly on a CF-27 too but I've never tried 10.10. I got 10.10 working on a Sony Vaio laptop with a 600mhz celeron processor and 256mb RAM but it was so slow that I thought that would be below the minimum requirements. The biggest problem will always be the graphics card on a CF-27.
     
    Dr Blood, Mar 26, 2011
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