I'm running Gentoo / fluxbox quite happily on a laptop with 256Meg, but I
was running Ubuntu before this. It was powerfully sluggish, but it ran.
The trick is to enable some swap space. If having ubuntu is important, you
have to use a live disc to create a swap partition, which the ubuntu
installer will recognize and use.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Jeremiah Bess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Look into puppy linux or feather linux or DSL (Damn Small Linux)
>
> Jeremiah E. Bess
> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 03:53, algomedic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, I am looking for a Linux Dist for my spare laptop that has only
>> 256 ram. I attempted to load Ubuntu and Xubuntu onto it but it shows
>> the laptop only has "253" available ram - they both do not load
>> porperly. The other issue I have is I'm having problems loading
>> programs from the CD upon reboot, Ubuntu and Xubuntu both have
>> software that installs that help with this and they start to load but
>> as I said do not finish. Are there any Linux systems that operate
>> with less then 256 ram and have the same install software to help with
>> my loading from the CD problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
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