On Fri 30 May 2014 at 03:00:21 +1000, 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,
Surely you are not saying 1.5GB is "RAM-starved" for playing video? The machines here manage with less. > rather than trying to manually cut Debian down to fit inside that RAM > while still leaving enough to play videos (including scaling them up If you had only 1 GB of disk space to play with you might try harder. X and vlc in about 500 MB is possible. Memory? The existing 1 GB doesn't seem to limit video playback. The limitation lies in the CPU and video chip. No 1080p video for me, I'm sorry to say ; the software is impotent to change that. > 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 What work has it done? It needs 2.5 GB of disk space and has two or three WM's and a couple of file managers. Plus libreoffice. I think AntiX is quite a nice distro but do you need all of this to play a video? Oh, and vlc has to be installed because it doesn't come with it! Talk about faffing around when you could just build (not "cut down") a dedicated Debian machine which performs just as well. -- 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/20140530231205.go17...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
