He may meant 20GB. Puppy Linux is starting to get fat as well. No offense here implied. The only advantage us running from USB drive or memory disk and very comprehensive drivers and firmware collection. But if you tried latest "quirky" boot up takes forever.<div><br></div><div>But I guess that is the future OS are getting fat and slow and thankfully hardware manufacturers are able to put 4-8 cores in chip for next to nothing.</div><div><br></div><div>Slim distro building around busybox is Slitaz. ISO is 50 MB installed on HDD is around 320. You get desktop file manager browser and web-based control panel. </div><div><br></div><div>But only my opinion.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, February 1, 2016, Jim Lynch <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2GB of memory is quite sufficient to run some of the lighter desktop environments, however 2GB of disk is fairly limiting. Try Puppy Linux. VectorLinux works well on small memory systems, but it won't fit on 2GB of disk. Why don't you upgrade the disk?<br>
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Don't even think of trying Ubuntu on 2 GB of disk. It won't let you.<br>
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Will this beast run any version of Linux almost well. It barely runs M$S. I have Fedora and a recent issue if Ubuntu LTS. Your thoughts are appreciated.<br>
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