[HLUG] Torios - smaller than Lubuntu?

[Steve Horsfield]

*There is even RAM to spare!*
You mean you can run the OS and software applications at the same time

Steve Horsfield

On 25 May 2015 at 11:24, George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Latest beta of Torios is at
> http://phillw.net/isos/torios/
> I'm downloading a copy now.
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> (ive reported small error on download page
> http://torios.net/download/
> )
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> Its under active development from a small team who report:
> ToriOS does indeed run on 128MB of Ram on an old Dell with a Pentium 4
> There is even RAM to spare!
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> [g]
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> -----Original Message----- From: George DiceGeorge
> Sent: Monday, 21 April, 2014 17:03
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: [HLUG] Torios - smaller than Lubuntu?
>
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> http://torios.org/
> 1. ToriOS will be based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Mini ISO with NON-PAE Kernel by
> default and will be an LTS system.
> 2. There will be only few packages by default and the user has 100% freedom
> to choose, download and install the package he/she needs, wants and/or
> desire. ToriOS will work out-of-the-box with the minimal possible working
> system. It is for the user to decide what system to have based on ToriOS.
> 3. Old machines with NON-PAE CPU will not go to trash yet. ToriOS will be
> the system to help these machines to breathe new life.
> 4. RAM Usage will be as minimal as possible - the target is to create a
> system that is using less RAM than Lubuntu (and other distributions).
> 5. ToriOS will have two options when it comes to the default installer. We
> are interested to go for OBI. Ubiquity, as everyone may know, needs more
> than 256MB RAM at the best cases and sometimes, it requires even more.
> 6. ToriOS has no plans for now to use zram-config by default.
> 7. More Technical Information can be found here.
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