Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:16:02 +1300 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a colleague who wants to put Linux on a laptop with 64Mb of RAM. Is this enough for a normal distribution such as Ubuntu or Suse, running Gnome or KDE, or will he need to look at one of the light-weight distributions?
Both KDE and gnome are a little bloated for 64M RAM IMHO.
But the solution, again IMHO, is not really to do with the distro, more the choice of desktop.
SuSE's installer is probably configurable enough to exclude kde from the install and use something else. icewm is reportedly nice.
Complication. It doesn't have a built-in CD (PCMCIA CD-ROM only), so he can't boot from the CD. I see that the Debian net-install can be started from floppy, but is there any way of starting a conventional CD install from floppy?
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