On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 03:00:21AM +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, > 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?
As mentioned in my previous post in this thread, I have an old Dell d420 I got off ebay for like $100 running Wheezy with openbox, no DE, it's only 750mhz with 1.5gb ram. Plays videos fine (youtube, in a browser, even). I have a bunch of movies on a server here in my office (not publicly available), and watch them from said laptop sometimes. tony -- https://tonybaldwin.info art, music, software by me, tony 3F330C6E
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