[ale] ARM CPU devices, linux capable, cheap

[Rich Faulkner]

I concur...

But I take the context of the original comment from Ron as assuming that
Ubuntu has all the bloat of two kitchen sinks.  Hence my comment...

Anymore when I think Ubuntu, I think...bloat.  But if you want
everything including a couple kitchen sinks then that's what you'll get.

RinL


On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 14:41 -0400, JD wrote:
> On 08/12/2011 01:18 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> > I am far from an Ubuntu pro but I've been using it a lot lately and
> > doing builds for various people on a variety of platforms.  1GB RAM is a
> > basic figure you can count on for most recent releases of Ubuntu.  My
> > student installed 10.10 on an IBM Thinkcenter last night which had 768MB
> > RAM w/a Celeron 1.8 (I think).  It won't win races but it does run.
> > 
> > Attempts at running recent releases on anything less than that has not
> > had good results so I shoot for 1GB as a base on memory.  
> > 
> > My current desktop (refurb'd HP xw4600 w/dual-core 2.6ish w/4GB RAM,
> > 1024GB Nvidia GPU running 10.10 from a WD 10K Raptor) boots in 15
> > seconds flat.  A far cry better than my old Fedora 12 build that I just
> > retired.
> > 
> > I generally look at RAM as first consideration then CPU and keep an open
> > mind toward something other than Ubuntu if a real legacy system.  
> > 
> 
> Mom runs LUbuntu on a 1G Pentium4 happily.  I've run a Debian on a 128M
> ARM for 3.5 yrs and it worked pretty well multitasking 4 apps at a time
> like GPS, music playback and rsync over ssh plus whatever I was actively
> doing with it (responding to emails etc...).
> 
> A properly configured Linux will easily fit and be useful in 64MB, don't
> confuse all the bloat that is common in the current mainstream distros
> as being something that running Linux demands.  TinyCore shows how
> bloated even Puppy or DSL are.
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