Re: fastest linux distro
On Fri 30 May 2014 at 03:00:21 +1000, Chris Angelico 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,
Surely you are not saying 1.5GB is "RAM-starved" for playing video? The
machines here manage with less.
> rather than trying to manually cut Debian down to fit inside that RAM
> while still leaving enough to play videos (including scaling them up
If you had only 1 GB of disk space to play with you might try harder. X
and vlc in about 500 MB is possible. Memory? The existing 1 GB doesn't
seem to limit video playback. The limitation lies in the CPU and video
chip. No 1080p video for me, I'm sorry to say ; the software is impotent
to change that.
> 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
What work has it done? It needs 2.5 GB of disk space and has two or
three WM's and a couple of file managers. Plus libreoffice. I think
AntiX is quite a nice distro but do you need all of this to play a
video?
Oh, and vlc has to be installed because it doesn't come with it! Talk
about faffing around when you could just build (not "cut down") a
dedicated Debian machine which performs just as well.
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