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11-20-2003, 06:17 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
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I need a distro...
I've installed Redhat 9 on my main system. I think it's quite nice.
I have another system which I want to install some distro on. The biggest problem is that it only has 48 megs of RAM. Now I know that linux can run on virtually any system today, but since I am a newb, I would like to have some sort of GUI.
Suggestions?
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11-20-2003, 08:48 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Manchester, England, UK, The World....
Distribution: Gentoo/SuSE 9.0
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hmm, 48MB thats pretty tight, you may be able to run X, but don't even think about running KDe or Gnome, run blackbox/fluxbox instead, they only take up about 600k of RAM, i dunno what kind of RAM X uses, i'm on my dads XP box now so i can't check.
basically you just want a very minimal setup, none of the extra services like canna, sshd, httpd, vsftpd...
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