Upgrade decision question before Install

If the TV show is not encrypted and is not affected by DRM (Digital rights management) after installing ubuntu-restricted-extras it should work.
And with 512MB RAM it should be big enough for reasonable work using Ubuntu. The only thing that in some (but seldom) cases might give trouble is the graphics card. And (in even more rare cases) the sound card. So it is better (before you deprive your girlfriend from the only way to watch ESPN) to post any details of the sound and graphics card your computer is using here before installing Ubuntu - or as a second thought - just boot the Computer from the Ubuntu CD and try if Video and sound works.

Since not all video and audio codecs are included with the live CD watching ESPN might fail using the live CD, though.

It'll run it fine. ESPN simply uses flash / embedded video whic Ubuntu can do.

Hi Terrell,

Without knowing the full details of the case it's hard to tell how feasible it would be to completely upgrade the machine. However, I imagine it would be possible, but getting an entirely new tower with all-new components might still be smarter.

Upgrading the CPU to a current 64-bit one would require a motherboard upgrade; current motherboards use different kind of RAM than your present motherboard; with the new motherboard you'd probably need a new hard drive with a SATA interface; and you would probably also need a new graphics card. In other words, you'd have to replace pretty much everything inside the case.

If there's no special reason for keeping the same case or some particular components, it would probably be easier to get an all-new computer and recycle the current computer as a whole to someone who has use for it than to replace almost everything and end up with a load of old components without a case. There isn't much of a difference in price either.

With that said, your Gateway should be able to run Ubuntu at least somewhat comfortably as it is. 512 MB of RAM may be a little tight but at least that can be upgraded quite easily if you're otherwise content with the computer.

In case you haven't found it already, there's a forum at Ubuntu Forums for the Georgia Local Community team at http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=210. If you can't find anybody there, perhaps you could try posting a separate question about that here with a more descriptive title line so that it might better catch the eye of people from your area.

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