On Monday 22 November 2004 12:06 pm, Brad Bendily wrote: > "not run very well" > > and > > "Not run at all" are two different things.
This is true. Simply Mepis, which is what the CCCC recommends, won't run off CD in 64 MB of RAM. It will however run in that once installed, as will Sarge. Mepis and Debian Sarge are both good starting points for this project. They will run adequately on a 233 MHz PII. 128 MB of RAM improves performance, but 64 will work. You will probably want to make custom images to speed things up. You can start by using Mepis, because it includes too much and then select packages you think will work from Sarge or lean down the Mepis install. I'm writing this on a 233 MHz PII with 196 MB of RAM. It had 64 when I bought it and did well before I got the additional memory. I use it for demos at the CCCC. It runs KDE 3 just fine, but I prefer Window Maker. OO is slow, but will run. KDE + Gnumeric makes a good substitute. The bigest problem I see is the 2.3GB hard drives. That's tight but a distro stripped down to KDE is more than usable and should fit.
