I'm getting a budget laptop, and I want to make sure it would run ubuntu 20.4 fine. I know the minimum requirement is 2gh dual-core, but I never had experience with this processor before. here are more specs of the laptop: 256 SSD 1080p CPU: Intel celeron_j3455 quad-core CPU frequency: 1.5GHz up to 2.3Ghz Memory: LPDDR3 6GB Thank you! Edit: Usage purpose mainly browser, Spotify, videos, &quot;heaviest&quot; thing would be nodejs for school.
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I have a device on which I would like to install Ubuntu. How do I find out if Ubuntu will work on it?
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Is there an easy way to check a notebook's hardware compatibility with ubuntu before you buy it?  I really don't want to buy a notebook home and find several bugs caused by the hardware.  I know that DELL has some notebooks which are pre-installed ubuntu12.04LTS, i.e. the new xps. But what about other notebooks? isn't there a way to quickly check a notebook's compatibility with ubuntu?  A way I can see is using a LiveCD/ubuntu stick and boot in ubuntu first, then run some tests. But the problem is: how to make these tests in a short time automatically??? and how can I check the hardware compatibility? I know that I can use lshw or hardinfo to get informations, but only having the information is not enough, there are still some possibilities that your hardware has a bug. For instance, Lenovo T410i's wireless driver has a bug which causes extremely low speed internet connection, I googled a lot and recompiled the driver to fix that bug. So this is the kind of situation I'm trying to avoid.  Any help is appreciated.
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I would like to upgrade a Toshiba Satellite C55-A5300 laptop so it can be as useful as it can be nowadays. I haven’t needed to use much software for a few years now, and I’m not able to gauge whether a maxed out upgrade of this laptop would be up to running the latest versions of MS Office and Acrobat smoothly. Maybe even run some Photoshop and Lightroom? I want to install the best CPU that will work optimally within the parameters of this laptop, including the laptop’s cooling capabilities. I ultimately want improved performance, but I want the performance to be as smooth as possible. From what I gather the Pentium 2030M is the best processor this motherboard will accept. Am I on the right track? I also plan to fully upgrade the memory and the hard disk speed with respective upgrades. What is the max memory per RAM slot (2 total)? What is the fastest speed of RAM I can use?  Copied from the Toshiba spec sheet:  Processor and Graphics Intel® Celeron® Processor 1037U o (2M Cache, 1.80GHz) Mobile Intel® NM70 Express Chipset Mobile Intel® HD graphics with shared graphics memory Memory Memory Configured with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz (max 16GB) 2 main memory slots. One slot is occupied Storage Drive 500GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive Power 45W (19V 2.37A) 100-240V/50-60Hz AC Adapter
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I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu Desktop, but I don't know what flavor is the best for my system. What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements? What kind of CPU? How much memory? Should I have Hardware Acceleration? What flavor should I use?  This is an attempt of a canonical answer. My answers have the &quot;official  requirements&quot;, the recommended are a mix of official sources and opinion based (along with the answer it's told the source). You can comment or edit if you feel that the information is obsolete or incomplete. It is a good rule of thumb that any system capable of running Windows Vista, 7, 8, x86 (Intel) OS X will almost always be a lot faster with any Ubuntu flavor even if they are lower-spec than described below.
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I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Samsung laptop alongside Windows 7. Whenever I use Ubuntu (even when its idle) kworker uses almost 90% of one of 8-cores. Even though it doesn't really affect my usage, it bugs me and I am afraid of that it might harm my processor. I even tried installing another Linux distro (Linux Mint), and kworker caused the same problem. So I don't know what to do. I would really appreciate your  help.
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I was reading through the hardware requirements of  and it says:     1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)   Why does running on a VM require more resources?
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I have a kubuntu 14.04 with the latest HWE kernel (3.16.0-31-generic), and a Xeon 1246v3 processor (which is basically an i7 4770 with ecc support). The processor has base frequency of 3.5 ghz, and max turbo frequency of 3.9 ghz.  I have the following questions:  1) I have intel p-states enabled by default, which is fine, but you know that with p-states you only get two governors: performance, and powersave. How can I manually set the maximum allowed cpu frequency?  2) As stated above, the cpu should be able to run at 3.9 only with one core loaded. With full load on all cores, it should not be able to go over 3.5 ghz. But if I issue the command watch -n 0 "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz" , I see that ALL four cores are constantly at 3.9 ghz, which should be impossible. How's that?  Thanks!
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Ok, I've always, for some reason, thought that my cpu had 32 bit registers... so I always installed the 32bit version of all OSs that I've used. Now though I ran a lscpu, and I get:  fer@fer-lap:~$ lscpu Arquitectura:          i686 CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit   Does this mean I can use 64 bit OSs?  Running these I get:  fer@fer-lap:~$ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo  flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dtherm   And I have read that the lm flag means long mode, which stands for 64 bit cpus. Also, as a last test, running lshw gives, for the cpu section:   *-cpu:0               descripción: CPU               producto: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T5800  @ 2.00GHz               fabricante: Intel Corp.               id físico: 4               información del bus: cpu@0               versión: 6.15.13               serie: 0000-06FD-0000-0000-0000-0000               ranura: U2E1               tamaño: 2GHz               capacidad: 4096MHz               anchura: 64 bits   It's in spanish and the last line stands for width (I guess register width). So... can I install the 64 bit of the OS? Will it be a big diference in performance? Because that's what I'm looking for (doesn't need to be a BIG difference)  Thanks in advance.
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I just want to know, what is the difference between ubuntu Minimal, Desktop &amp; Server Editions? How they differ? is it by performance? If yes which one is recommended for a normal user and which one is recommended for a advanced user ?
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My laptop diagnostic shows several pre-fails and has other issues so I am urgently shopping for a new laptop, my second using Ubuntu. I need a laptop with good graphics capabilities and have come across a couple with the Nvidia GeForce 840M graphics card. In other words, I do not have a problem now and am hoping to avoid one.  My research on Ask Ubuntu and elsewhere shows that there have been some bugs with Ubuntu 14.04 and Nvidia drivers (not just for the 840M driver) but that fixes were made or a least suggested. But I have seen nothing definitive, e.g. the Ubuntu Certification for laptops is barely starting with 14.04.  I am about to spend a 1000 dollars and would love a little more assurance before I proceed -- my understanding is that a Live CD cannot perform a full simulation. Are there easy-to-recognize concrete factors which make compatibility (more) predictable, such as specific models of computer and their processors?  I am a considering a  with an Intel i5 4200M  and an  with an Intel i7 4700HQ. Both use an Nvidia 840M graphics card.
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My processor is an . As you can see, it's 2 cores and 4 threads.  Although, both Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 seem to think it's a quad-core CPU:      Why is this? Is it because there are 2 threads per core, dividing the CPU in 4 processing units?
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I have an HP EliteBook Folio 9470m with an Intel Core i5 processor at 1.9GHz and 4GB RAM.  Is it useful to buy an additional 4GB RAM memory with this CPU? Or would the extra RAM be wasted from a performance standpoint?
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We are assembling some lightweight machines with the express purpose of displaying a single web page over a large screen. I need the machine to essentially boot up as lightweight and as quickly as possible and essentially have it run a browser (WebKit?) in full screen, loading one page which will be controlled dynamically by JavaScript. I'll be using an Intel D525 dual-core processor with integrated GPU, so I shouldn't need to set up any proprietary graphics drivers. Once I get one of these machines set up properly, I should just be able to dd the hard drive onto my computer and then dump it onto each new machine.  I have the following questions:   How can I create a "distribution" which includes only what I need? I suppose I'll need the kernel (;]), X, and a web browser of some sort, but not really too much else. Could I take something like Ubuntu Server and simply install X Server and find a way to have the machine automatically log in, start X, and start the web browser, no questions asked? Is there a book I can read or an article or something?  What can I use for a nice, stripped-down web browser that essentially runs a "chromeless Chromium?" These machines won't be accepting user input at all. If I need to manage them, I'll use SSH.
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I have an older HP netbook and am looking for a 32-bit version of Ubuntu 18.04 desktop. Can you advise if one is available?
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I have a 5 year old notebook computer. It uses Windows XP, and as you might know, this OS now has no support at all. It has a 1.60GHz, 0.98GB of RAM.  What would you guys recommend me , in order for me to happily migrate from Windows XP to Ubuntu program.  I appreciate in advance any help you can provide me regarding this matter.  Regards
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I recently noticed my computer is highly sluggish (recent install of Kubuntu 13.04 by the way). I have a Toshiba Satellite P70-A PSPLPC-01Y007 laptop with an Intel i7 quad-core, 16 GB of ram. It appears to look correct in the kinfo. So I ran mpstat -P ALL:  Linux 3.8.0-30-generic (Isogen)         13-09-02        _x86_64_        (1 CPU)  10:07:13 AM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle 10:07:13 AM  all   11.07    3.02    2.90   36.25    0.00    0.12    0.00    0.00   46.64 10:07:13 AM    0   11.07    3.02    2.90   36.25    0.00    0.12    0.00    0.00   46.64   I noticed when I had chrome open with 10 tabs, typical of an engineer, but it kept freezing horribly. After I ran top, I realized the CPU kept hitting 100% and only one CPU/core is listed. Couldn't find a solution so far. How can I get it to register all 4 cores?  cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -E "(core|model\ name)" model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz core id         : 0 cpu cores       : 1   as well as  sudo grep -i smp /var/log/syslog Sep  2 10:02:41 Isogen kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 3.8.0-30-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1) ) #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 20:52:24 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6) Sep  2 10:02:41 Isogen kernel: [    0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fe1b0-0x000fe1bf] mapped at [ffff8800000fe1b0] Sep  2 10:02:41 Isogen kernel: [    0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Sep  2 10:02:41 Isogen kernel: [    0.010390] Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed Sep  2 10:02:41 Isogen kernel: [    0.062244] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz (fam: 06, model: 3c, stepping: 03) Sep  2 10:02:41 Isogen kernel: [    0.063005] smpboot: Total of 1 processors activated (4788.97 BogoMIPS) Sep  2 11:18:52 Isogen kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 3.8.0-30-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1) ) #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 20:52:24 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6) Sep  2 11:18:52 Isogen kernel: [    0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fe1b0-0x000fe1bf] mapped at [ffff8800000fe1b0] Sep  2 11:18:52 Isogen kernel: [    0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Sep  2 11:18:52 Isogen kernel: [    0.010393] Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed Sep  2 11:18:52 Isogen kernel: [    0.062271] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz (fam: 06, model: 3c, stepping: 03) Sep  2 11:18:52 Isogen kernel: [    0.063032] smpboot: Total of 1 processors activated (4788.73 BogoMIPS)   EDIT: But when I run sudo lshw -class cpu, I get this:  *-cpu                           description: CPU        product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz        vendor: Intel Corp.        physical id: 4        bus info: cpu@0        version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz        serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.        slot: U3E1        size: 2400MHz        capacity: 2400MHz        width: 64 bits        clock: 100MHz        capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid        configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=8   So it recognizes that it has 4 cores with 8 threads, as well as says that all 4 cores are enabled. It is also hyper-thread, so even if running only on one core, it should see two.
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I have a Dell Studio 17. It's a few years old, and I wanted to upgrade the processor. It currently has an Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 @ 2.00GHz  My question is how can I find out which processors are compatible?