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Standard modern distros are fairly heavy, agreed. But a custom distro can be super-lightweight and still include most features you'd expect from a desktop OS. I
by retube 15y ago
Standard modern distros are fairly heavy, agreed. But a custom distro can be super-lightweight and still include most features you'd expect from a desktop OS. In 2003 I was running desktop redhat on an old IBM thinkpad with just 32MB of RAM. So 128 should be plenty!
And here's a list of out-of-the-box light-weight distros: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/whats-best-lightweight-linux-distro http://www.tuxradar.com/content/whats-best-lightweight-linux...
- ChuckMcM 15y agoGreat link, thanks! One of the more interesting questions (and the Rasberry Pi creator is investing in) is 'learning about computers.' Which I truly support. (Local high school computer class was about how to use Microsoft Office, bleh!) Its one of the reasons have felt that Arduino's and their spawn are doing a great service of getting people interested in understanding what the computer is doing at a more complex level, before they open up their first kernel file and gaze upon the complexity therein.
- retube 15y agoNo probs. And of course roll your own with Linux From Scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ A great way to really learn Linux too :)