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? ChrisA -- 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/captjjmqislzjdeoqi7wxooozjrpfr75fmzbdrdu2cxngaxl...@mail.gmail.com
