Memory economical Linux installation?

[sara fink]

I would suggest slax.

It requires much less memory.

Memory

· 30 MB to boot slax.
· 64 MB to run Xwindow with fluxbox (guifast)
· 128 MB to run Xwindow with KDE (gui or guisafe)
 http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/SLAX-1001.shtml

Those figures are for slax to run from usb or livecd. Probably, it
requires the same installed as well.

On 11/28/09, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> I was contacted by someone, who has an old laptop with 192MB memory, and
> wants to install Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) on it.
>
> I advised him to first upgrade the memory to at least 512MB.
>
> However, as an alternative to upgrading the laptop, I'd like to know if
> and which distributions and desktops being actively maintained are
> economical in memory usage yet provide X-Window in some form.
>
> Thanks,
> --- Omer
>
>
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