On 08/29/2009 07:57 PM, Asif Lodhi wrote: > Hi list users, > > I have a system with 1.7GHz Celeron processor and 256MB RAM. Most > current distros are too heavy. Can you recommend any distro that is > light and fast and that can be used to run Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, > Blender, etc? I have been browsing for a light Linux distro and > http://www.elivecd.org/ seems fast and light enough to me. But I know > Scribus' requirement of QT. I would be thankful if you could suggest > such a distribution to me (and possibly others?) on this list. > > My main requirements are Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, C/C++ development, > Internet browsing, emailing, downloading, etc. I am not very keen on > watching movies and listening to audio/music/songs. So my requirements > are really simple. > I was using a PIII with something like a 333MHz processor, and found that the processor could handle Linux and Scribus Ok, but with 256MB RAM there was a serious problem at times. Upgrading to 512+RAM should take a lot of your problems away -- the main thing was stability.
Surely with this system you can put in at least 512MB of RAM, and it shouldn't be very expensive either. Greg
