Re: Suggestion for a low memory system
On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:36, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> > Dear Users,
> > I would like your suggestion of a Sarge install on a low memory
> > system. The system actually has a 750 Mhz P-III, and 56 MB RAM (+ 8
> > MB VRAM, I hear). Now, I would like to install Sarge on to that
> > machine for internet browsing and word processing. I would like your
> > advice on what software and, in particular, what window manager to
> > use so that sluggishness can be minimized.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kumar
>
> I hope this doesn't seem heretical or critical on this mail echo.
>
> There are special versions of Linux which are *designed* to run
> in a small memory footprint. One of them is DSL, which is a
> spin-off of Knoppix, which is a spin-off of Debian. I have it
> running in 16MB of RAM on one of my machines. If you want help
> getting that on your machine I can help. But I have no GUI running
> in that little bit of RAM. I have another machine which can run
> DSL in 32MB of RAM, with full GUI.
>
> So, it's not exactly Debian, but it's also not exactly *not*
> Debian.
>
> Anyway, if you want to try it, I can help you with that. It's
> worth a try, I think. If I can run it on a 100MHz Pentium with
> 32MB of RAM with full GUI, and 16MB of ram on a 160MHz 486, I
> suppose it'll run on your machine.
>
> Mike
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this works well on low resource boxes. The DSL people do more than just
use light apps, they config the apps to use fewer resources so you can't
duplicate it by installing Debian and the same Debian ver of the apps.
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Greg Madden
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