On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25, 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. FVWM is perfect for this sort of set up. I used it for quite a long time until I discovered KDE. Version 1 worked quite well in 64Megs, btw.
It's more the apps and WM rather than the distribution per se. Write off bloatware like OOo etc. AbiWord, TeX, LaTeX, and their frontends will do a better job anyway. What does your colleague want to do with his antiquity? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell.
