Hi Brian
On 30/03/11 18:46, Brian Masterman 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.
What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow usb
transfer afterwards.
(The system is a Toshiba 1000 with 384MB ram 120GB disk)
Compared to most of my old machines that's a monster. To put things in
perspective, my humblest machine, running Debian Lenny, is a Pentium
90MHz with 96M of RAM*. You'll need more to run X, but most of the bloat
will be from a modern Gnome/KDE desktop manager. There are loads of
lightweight alternatives - just google lightweight linux desktop manager
and see what's available on your distro.
Cheers
Tim
*To put things in even more perspective, I'm currently working on a
small multitasking embedded system, with a graphical user interface,
with just 8K (~ 0.008M) of RAM!
Brian M.
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