[ale] Mem. reqs. for RH9 (and other distros)

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Thu Apr 3 08:23:40 EST 2003


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Fulton Green wrote:

> I may just give this a go anyway on my *six*-year-old 90 MHz laptop with
> a sparse 24 MB of memory, but if the installation chokes, what would be
> a more "forgiving" distro?  I was thinking Slackware, but perhaps Debian
> can handle older machines like this as well.  I would imagine there are
> one or two other distros out there specifically tuned for this situation.

I have Slack 8.1 running on an old Thinkpad. 133 w/ 24MB RAM. Runs just
fine at the console, and is actually tolerable running X with a
lightweight WM.

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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