Booted live off Ubuntu 9.04 on Compaq Presario with 3 GB of ram. I just installed Xemacs with apt-get. I think this is only the 32 bit version but it is OK so far. Some basic info:
Setting up emacs22-common (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up emacs22-bin-common (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up xaw3dg (1.5+E-17) ...
Setting up emacs22 (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... done.
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for menu ...
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ emacs
^Z
[1]+ Stopped emacs
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ bg
[1]+ emacs &
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP
Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ date
Tue Aug 11 17:20:51 UTC 2009
So this is running in the background from a terminal, some kind of xterm.
Opened the Calendar Buffer:
July 2009 August 2009 September 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 5
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30
30 31
I couldn't figure out how to copy the calender buffer directly into this buffer but just saved it as a file and read that file back into this one.
Now the emacs package and these files are volitile, since I am just running this linux with the emacs package, about 70 MB of it in ram. I will have to save this file on a stick, along with any other edits I make such as to pictures, to a stick, for instance. It looked as if the Ubuntu got the packages off the web, not from the eco-DVD. so named because it is very thin in dimension and presumably less impactful on the planet.
I have gotten used to using Thunderbird under Mozilla for mail and USENET under Windows, it looks like Ubuntu perfers Evolution. I should save this and see if there is a Thunderbird package available to Ubuntu. It looks very easy to add packages to Ubuntu. If that is true I may go ahead and install Ubuntu on this system, but I will make sure and make /home a separate partition in case I want to use my files with another Linux distor.
I liked the fonts in Mint Linux, derived from Ubuntu, but it looks like Ubuntu uses fixed font Currier for Emacs and some other fixed font for terminal, another detail to check.