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.

I am not sure how much choice an expert Ubuntu install allows, nor what 
alternatives may be available in their repositories.

Which reminds me I still have your Ubuntu CD here...sorry about that!

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