[ale] Linux in 1 GB RAM

[Boris Borisov]

Just had horrible experience with Ubuntu-12.04. Hours of install then
installed LXDE things got better, then unresponsible system when you
run Browser and software center together. Like you have Java script in
loop hanging around the system. Got mad and installed Knoppix. I would
say German engineering :)

On 6/19/13, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
> Why, Gentoo of course, but then again I run Gentoo on everything I can
> get my hands on (or used to).
>
> If you are limited to 1GiB RAM - and I have been before - you may be a
> bit swap-dependent; I'd encourage putting swap on its own drive and that
> drive on its own IDE controller; might want to test out any loose drives
> you have lying around with bonnie++ and seeing which ones do random
> read-writes the fastest.
>
> On 6/18/13 10:47 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> Whay distro would you install in 1 GB
>> I used to run Kde 1 and Netscape in 64 MB but those days are long
>> gone. Is for Windows user that got his recovery CDs lost. I will try
>> with Linux
>> Dual core Pentium D.
>>
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