pc report - my harddiskless linux box! :)

according to xubuntu's minimum system requirement only 1.5GB is required for the system installation. therefore, my 2GB SD card is good to replace the hard drive, at least for the moment.

by using an atom dual core, the performance is actually not bad. it's not as fast as my amd quad, but it costs me only 1/6 of the price.

it has no hard drive, there is no sound besides the fan... well, the stock fan is really noisy though. ;P i need to get rid of it later.

the installation guided me using 141.2 MB for the swap. although i don't think it will ever be used coz i have 2 GB ram on board, i couldn't get installation complete without partitioning a swap area. the "dividing" left me 1,761,100 bytes for the file system. and right after the system reboot, i see 89% used and only 200MB free space for the coming media player, codec, etc.

it feels the SD disk is slower than the boot-from-CD system. i have no idea. system monitor reads 10% usage of cpu in average, while the firefox is up. i assume it's good enough to be a web browsing machine.