Fedora on 64MB RAM

[Dave Germiquet]

I think Debian ... is the best way to go..
Slackware should work too unless they've... done something drastic
since i last used it (which was a while ago)

I used xfce4 with 64 mbs of ram, I think.


On 5/6/07, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Actually,
> i was using asterisknow and i wanted to switch the platform. So i tried to
> install FC6 but the installer complainst that 64MB of RAM is too little and
> then exits..
>
> I am trying debian right now, it seems a bit better but the package
> management takes a bit of getting used to..
>
>
>
>
> On 5/6/07, Howard Gibson <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:42:45 -0400
> > "Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org > wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know how to install fedora on a machine with 64MB of RAM?
> > >
> >
> > Ansar,
> >
> >   I do not see any problems installing it.  Are you planning to run
> X-windows on this thing?  I just upgraded my PII/350 from 256Mb to 636Mb,
> and the speed improvement is noticeable, especially when I use my printer.
> I am running FC6, with Xen disabled.
> >
> >   I ran Slackware_3 quite happily on a machine with 20Mb RAM, but they
> keep adding bells and whistles.  I have retired my P233 laptop with Red Hat
> 7.3 and 64Mb RAM because it was too slow running Open Office.
> >
> >   If you run a small window manager like FVWM2 and use a text editor to
> write your formatted documents (HTML and LaTeX), you have a chance.  I do
> not think web browsing will work.
> >
> >   Failing all that, Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is an excellent read and
> probably a major influence on Douglas Adams when he wrote Hitchhiker's Guide
> to the Galaxy.  My copy is 884 pages long, but you will have time.  :)
> >
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