On Fri, 30 May 2014, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Steve Litt > <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > When I have an extremely RAM starved computer, I put Debian on it > > every time. CLI Network install works with almost no RAM, and > > granular choices of things to install guarantees I'll have a small > > system. > > How RAM-starved can you put Debian on, without faffing around too much > to go minimal? I have a video-playing laptop (drives a TV via S-Video) > with 1.5GB RAM. Granted, I couldn't go CLI only there, but in the end, > rather than trying to manually cut Debian down to fit inside that RAM > while still leaving enough to play videos (including scaling them up > or down to fit the screen), I ended up installing AntiX, which seems > to have done all the work for me already. It's Debian-derived, so all > my knowledge of Debian still applies, and it's been running happily > for the month since I installed it. > > Would be interested to know if anyone's run a recent Debian, with a > GUI, in less memory than that. Which WM and DE did you use?
Wheezy/LXDE (dedicated install CD) 32-bit on EeePC 900MHz Celeron, 512 MB RAM. Standard partitions. No LVM. Ran fine, but up'd RAM to 1GB anyway. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140529231738.14558...@debian7.boseck208.net
