On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Aditya Godbole <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Arindam <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have some aging / old desktops for which I am looking for >> appropriate distributions. I intend to use them as developer systems >> for some kernel development (noo-b there, modest intentions) but >> prefer an X installation. >> > > For a 'slim' distribution, I used to start with a debian base install > and then add in whatever I wanted. > If you are not looking for something that slim, maybe Slackware might > be a good option. >
Debian was the first distro I looked at for the purpose. I saw its RAM requirements were 512 Megs (recommended) and 64 Megs minimal. Xubuntu on my 1 Gig system takes up about 540 Megs on an idle system with no swap used at 60% swappiness. The other system for which I am doing this distro hunt has 512 Megs. It tends to be a little slow with the FreeBSD 6.1 that it currently has (this is from 2006). Given Ubuntu's similarity with Debian, was wondering if it will be any different. Was wondering there is a distro still around which can be trimmed adequately to be performant on this machine. Thanks. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
