I have an older Thinkpad X31 (1.4ghz Pentium M, 512mb DDR, 40GB HDD) that is currently running XP Pro. However, I am looking to experiment with Linux, and I thought that Ubuntu would be a great place to start. This computer isn't really used much (just sits around for downloads currently and runs WCG via BOINC), so it just has to be able to do the same with Ubuntu. Does anybody foresee any potential issues with running Ubuntu on a computer this slow? BTW, I don't have spare HDDs, so I couldn't install Ubuntu on a spare to see if I like it, I would have to reformat XP (I'm not opposed to this, but I would prefer to not have to install it first). Also, the X31, being an ultra-portable, has no optical drive, so how would I go about installing Ubuntu?
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