[leglug-users] Running Linux on old PCs

[BashLogic]

greetz

the distro recommendation will always be arround 256mb but you can
turn off excess deamons and unload unecessary modules (drivers) that
way you can cut down ubuntu or suse to fit to 128 with ease. what you
need to do first is switch to a very light windows manager such as
fluxbox/blackbox/xfce as those have a small footprint in ram.
this way you can use the common distros with a little finetuning
tweaking to optimize and fit to that hardware.

128mb is enough to run linux + desktop + web/office apps

regards
BL

PS: happy to hear of such projects going on ..


On 8/3/07, Abdallah Deeb <abdallah.deeb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Imad,
>
> Glad you found my email :)
> I'm forwarding your email to the Lebanese Linux Users Group to get
> their opinion on the matter. This way you'll have more hands working
> on your solution.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> On 8/3/07, Imad Sleiman <sleimani at un.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mr. Deeb,
> >
> > It was nice meeting you, and I hope I will have the chance to meet  with you
> > soon. As I explained to you on the phone, ESCWA has some old PCs (PT-III,
> > 128 MB RAM, 6GB to 20 GB HDD) it wants to distribute for the purpose of
> > community development in rural areas of Lebanon. The PCs will have
> > open-source software installed. However, most of the popular Linux OS
> > require a minimum of 256 MB RAM such as UBUNTU and SUSE. I have found one OS
> > that runs confortably on ESCWA's old systems and is called Puppy Linux. I
> > have made some preliminary tests and appeared suitable for most general
> > purpose applications. However, I was not able to run Arabic.
> >
> > Could you direct me to Linux versions that run on older systems and have
> > Arabic interfaces or are Arabic enabled?
> >
> > I would appreciate hearing from you soon.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Imad Sleiman
>
>
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