Re: fastest linux distro
On Fri, 30 May 2014 03:00:21 +1000
Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Steve Litt
> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > When I have an extremely RAM starved computer, I put Debian on it
> > every time. CLI Network install works with almost no RAM, and
> > granular choices of things to install guarantees I'll have a small
> > system.
>
> How RAM-starved can you put Debian on, without faffing around too much
> to go minimal? I have a video-playing laptop (drives a TV via S-Video)
> with 1.5GB RAM. Granted, I couldn't go CLI only there, but in the end,
> rather than trying to manually cut Debian down to fit inside that RAM
> while still leaving enough to play videos (including scaling them up
> or down to fit the screen), I ended up installing AntiX, which seems
> to have done all the work for me already. It's Debian-derived, so all
> my knowledge of Debian still applies, and it's been running happily
> for the month since I installed it.
>
> Would be interested to know if anyone's run a recent Debian, with a
> GUI, in less memory than that. Which WM and DE did you use?
>
Here's what you can do with half a gig on an ARM:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Raspberry_Pi
http://www.raspbmc.com/about/
--
Joe
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