On Wednesday 05 Dec 2007, James Ogley wrote:
> A friend of mine's just bought an old laptop[1] for his kids to use
> and wants to install Linux on it. It's only got 64M of RAM and a
> 6G hard drive.
>
> Does anyone have experience of [relatively] modern Linuxes that are
> targeted at low-spec/old hardware and can make a recommendation?
>
> [1]
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> James Ogley
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I run DSL on a lesser machine than that and it seems very happy.
To quote from their FAQ at
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ
Minimum Requirements for DSL with X-Window:
* i386
* 8 MB RAM
So you should be safe enough!
Another good one, especially for ease of installation and for built in
multimedia apps is dynebolic:
http://www.dynebolic.org/
"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning them into full
media stations: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM
and IDE CD-ROM"
HTH, Peter
