[Gllug] Linux distro for small memory system

Christopher Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Oct 30 06:06:29 UTC 2006


On Sunday 29 Oct 2006 22:12, Richard Jones wrote:
> Has anyone any thoughts on a suitable Linux distro for a relatively
> small memory laptop (64 MB of RAM, but nice 650 MHz processor)?
> It has to be usable by someone with little computing experience - this
> is an upgrade from Windows ME (!)
>
> I've been following a couple of "how to install Ubuntu on low memory
> systems" guides[1][2], but I'm not getting very far as they seem to be
> quite outdated.
>
> Rich.

DSL - Damn Small Linux - will probably fit the bill, but even that might be 
slow.  Can't you get a bit more memory for the box?

Chris

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