RE: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

["Steven Grunza" <sgrunza@ctdi.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudius Hubig [mailto:debian_1303@chubig.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 9:59 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC
> 
> Dear Steven,
> 
> Steven Grunza wrote:
> >
> > Hello.  I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of
> RAM.
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Installing the system shouldn’t be a problem.
> 
> > I realize this system is _NOT_ going to be a performance machine.
> I
> > plan on using it for text editing (in laptop mode using keyboard)
> and
> > taking handwritten notes (in slate mode)
> 
> However, I don’t know whether the tablet will work. If Ubuntu had
> problems, chances are that Debian (and in fact, any Linux) has the
> same problems.
> 

From what I could tell the Ubuntu project is getting ready to move from X11 to something else and some of the preparations for that change appear to be causing the problems.  I had the same touchscreen problems on my Tecra M4 with Ubuntu but resolved them by moving to Fedora.  I'll give Debian a try and see how it goes...