On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:46:37 +0100, Brian Masterman <b...@seahues.net>
wrote:
I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for
recording purposes.
All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc.
I cry rubbish. Stop trying to enable Gnome/KDE with desktop effects and
start looking at what you really need.
My laptop is often clocked at 900Mhz while I use it and I regularly run
virtual machines with 256MB or less of RAM with no real problems.
Other than audacity what else do you need?
I would look to setup the laptop with XDM as the login manager. Dropping
the user to a lighweight desktop, openbox (or one of the family) maybe
even a tiling WM.
Check you've got useless services disabled, thought these will be eating
more RAM than CPU. Do you really need apache, mysql or similar running (or
even installed) I highly doubt it.
Have fun.
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