On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Shridhar Daithankar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 10 January 2010 14:16:25 Arindam wrote: >> 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. > > I have run arch linux on a 1G machine with KDE4 and a windows VM of 256MB. > Although VM brought it to a slower side because it starts hitting swap, so > long as you keep using VM continuously, you won't notice a thing. > > 1G is plenty. 512 is sufficient. 256 is where things get interesting :) (I > lost context of original post, so dunno what RAM that system has) >
This is a PIII 733 MHz with 512 Megs RAM (that's the highest the Mercury Motherboard with Intel 815e can support). I guess I will use XFCE or even some minimalistic stuff like Fluxbox. I downloaded Debian 5 (Lenny) first 3 cds (1.88 gigs in about an hour and a half using Jigdo) so thinking of building this up from the Debian bases installation as Aditya suggested. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
