Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320

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Author: Clive Woodfine
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320
> I'd recommend crunchbanglinux rather than xubuntu. It's ubuntu based,
> but uses a very lightweight openbox window manager.
>
> http://crunchbanglinux.org
>
> Very nice. I run it on an old Dell PIII650MHz with 256MB RAM. On
> booting to the desktop the memory footprint is under 100MB, nearer 60.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.


I would agree with that. I run it on an AMD 550 ATHLON, 256 Mb of
memory even having 2 CRT monitors running with an NVIDIA driver until
one of them died.
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Clive Woodfine