[mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation

[Ingles, Raymond]

512MB is about enough for anything a basic desktop would want to do.
It's tight for video editing and such, but it can be done (I've done 
it.)

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> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Michael ORourke
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation
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> Good suggestions... thanks to everyone that replied.
> 
> I don't want the hassle of roll-your-own distribution, or 
> something I need 
> to compile on the box.  Just something I can install easily 
> and that just 
> "works".  The hardware is a 900MHz Celeron mini-desktop with 
> 512MB and a 
> 20GB hard drive.
> So far, I'm pretty happy with Puppy Linux installed to the 
> hard drive. 
> Which looks like this is going to be a good solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
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> From: "Jeff Hanson" <jhansonxi at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation
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> > On 7/23/07, Michael ORourke <mrorourke at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> Any suggestions on a lightweight Linux distribution to use on older
> >> hardware?
> >
> > Stuff I've used by size/features:
> > Xubuntu
> > Puppy www.puppylinux.com
> > DeLi delili.lens.hl-users.com
> >
> > There are lots of other Ubuntu-based distros with various system 
> > requirements:
> > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ubuntu-based_distributions
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