[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[Jim Ray]

Xubuntu alt is installing now on 64 MB 500 MHz PC.  Yee haw.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Magnus
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:22 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
> 
> tomed at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > When the RH installer throws you into a "low memory" install, I assume
> > it is bypassing all of these "porky" apps and selecting a non-gui app
> > suite with a much smaller resource footprint.
> 
> Nope.  You get all the same porky apps.  The installer itself is a
> memory hog.  The installer isn't fully functional on a 256MB system!
> 
> But you still get all the useless garbage starting up by default, so you
> have to go in with chkconfig and disable a bunch of things that don't
> mean anything to you.
> 
> 
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