Collins wrote:
> Sorry to hear about that!  I don't think gentoo or any of the
> mega-distros is the answer.  64meg ram is pretty much the minimum for
> anything with X.

That's hardly true.  What did everyone do before the days of 64MB being 
common?  You can run X on 4MB of RAM with something like twm of fvvm.

> There's a really minimalist distro, but I can't remember the name. 
> You might do some searches on google or on our archives (I tried it
> out long ago).  xfce or blackbox are your best bets for a usable X
> environment with low mem.

Exactly, the limitation is the window manager not X.


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