Re: Minimum specs
Ian wrote:
I was wondering, what are the absolute minimum specs of a machine you could
put Debian on, using a minimalistic WM, such as xfce or Fluxbox. One of my
teachers has a few 500Mhz Celeron machines with like 64MB of RAM, and I was
wondering what cool things I could do to them.
I am running Sarge on a Pentium 90 with 48MB of RAM, but I don't run
XFree/Org on it (just squid(+patches) pdnsd, nfs, nntp server), in it's
current configuration it has only a couple of MB swapped to disk. I have
another box which has an AMD K2-500Mhz with 386MB of RAM that runs
gnome, firefox(~40MB), openoffice(90MB+), gnumeric(~200MB, it has some
big sheets) and evolution(30MB?) quite hapily at the same time with
minimal paging and about 120MB swapped to disk (OO.org takes a little
while to start the first time after boot). The problem for you is going
to be the small amount of RAM...
HTH
Brett
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