

For example, a netbook with an 8 GB SSD will work well although there wont be much room for saving stuff directly onto the drive so cloud storage services could help a lot. On one hand, hardware produced in the last few years or with an efficient architecture or machines built for a specific purpose can often work well with less. Screen resolution will be set at the highest your graphics card can handle but when you boot-up you should be given a "Low graphics mode" option which allows you to set it to something better for your monitor.

Either a CD/DVD drive or a USB port for the installer media.VGA capable of 1024x768 screen resolution.25 GB (8.6 GB for minimal) of hard-drive space (or USB stick, memory card or external drive but see LiveCD for an alternative approach).Simply try Ubuntu CD as a LiveCD first to check the hardware works. A good "rule of thumb" is that machines that could run XP, Vista, Windows 7 or x86 OS X will almost always be a lot faster with Ubuntu even if they are lower-spec than described below.

The Recommended Minimum System Requirements, here, should allow even someone fairly new to installing Ubuntu or Gnu&Linux to easily install a usable system with enough room to be comfortable. A desktop system is typically used for personal computing tasks and has a graphical user interface (GUI), while a server system typically has a command-line interface (CLI). Most people will want to install a desktop system such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Xubuntu. This page details the hardware required to run Ubuntu and its derivative versions. Lightweight GUI alternative (Xubuntu and Lubuntu).Recommended Minimum System Requirements.
