On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> While I am not personally interested, at the Clinic we quite often are >> faced with a newbie wanting to install Linux on a computer with limited >> resources, e.g., < 256 MB RAM, hard disk with only 4 GB, and so on. >> When faced with such a scenario we usually whip out a live CD for >> Xubuntu, although occasionally Puppy and DSL have their day. If Lubuntu >> is a viable alternative, I'd like to know. >> >> You could also check out Fluxbuntu for older, limited resource machines as > it can run on a system with only a 300 MHz CPU and 64 MB of RAM. > > It uses truly lower resource intensive apps such as: Kazehakase browser > Sylpheed-Claws email app. > > http://www.fluxbuntu.org/js.html# > > The downsides are: > > Linux newbies might struggle with using the Fluxbox window manager as it's > not anything like Gnome or KDE desktop. > > It looks like the latest stable ver. is 7.x, so they're a bit behind on the > dev curve. Also since it probably has a much smaller user community, getting > help when you need it might be a bit harder... > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
I'm a big fan of LXDE based operating systems in general. There's a RC of Linux Mint 9 using LXDE out right now. (http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1429) The ISO is 592MB. (http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=60) Haven't tried it yet, waiting for a non-RC release, but it looks promising. Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
