Memory economical Linux installation?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:26:56AM +0200, sara fink wrote:
> 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.

That is the minimal required ammount. Have you actually tried to use it?

For starters, don't waste memory on a ramdrive if you're already short
on memory.

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