On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:56 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I used to recommend blackbox / fluxbox for light setups, but I have to say "XFCE 4" (version 4 mind you, not earlier ones) rocks. It's got all the features I love without the bloat. I like it so much I've ditched KDE for it on my good (athlon 2600+) machine, ever since I heard about it on this list :) Well worth a look. My 2c... Cheers, Gareth
