[mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Mon Jul 23 19:10:06 EDT 2007


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:00:06 -0400
Wojtak, Greg wrote:

...[snip]....

> How about Gentoo?  Then you can decide how little/big you want your
> install to be?  Biggest pain is that it is almost from scratch.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/

While gentoo is very configurable, it _does_ have some disk space
requirements.  At present /usr/portage occupies approx 600Mb.  If I
recall, the recommendation for installing it used to be 1GB of ram
(including swap).

Regards,

David




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