On Vi, 30 mai 14, 03:00:21, 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.
That's plenty. > 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), Specs would be nice, but I think the processor and/or video card is doing all the heavy lifting in such a case. Having dedicated video RAM is usually a plus, but I had something like this running on a PIII 500 MHz with 768 MB RAM and a 512 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (running only with OpenBox). I replaced it with a Raspberry Pi (512 MB RAM) that can handle 1080p videos, uses 3,5 W (not including the external drive), is completely silent (no fans) and cost me thirty-something euros including shipping and a box (but no SD card and no power source). > 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? I've just recently replaced Windows XP on a 512 MB RAM laptop with stable (default LXDE install, minimal adjustments). The owner was very pleased with the feel of the new system and I can attest it felt usable to me as well. Youtube videos seemed to work fine. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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