Re: [Hampshire] Linux on machines with small RAM

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Author: Will Davies
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Linux on machines with small RAM
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.
>
puppy linux
http://www.puppylinux.com/
There are lots of derivatives all targeted at various needs. A full hard
drive install would work well with 64MB RAM.
Documentation is horrendously fragmented but the forum at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy
has a lot of helpful people.

--
Will Davies



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