[ale] low-memory distros?

[Nick Ali]

Arch makes it really easy to start up processes in the background, so
it boots up faster.

nick

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> For barebones, I would recommend Arch. Nothing is installed that you
>  don't need. There maybe four daemons that run on boot after a base
>  install. Only one of them being useless (IMHO) -- netfs.
>
>  But if you don't like doing things yourself, stick with one of the
>  more friendly distributions.
>
>  On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Jeffrey B. Layton <laytonjb at charter.net> wrote:
>  > Afternoon,
>  >
>  >  On to a new subject... I may inherit my wife's laptop and I'm thinking
>  >  of installing a distro on it to take with me when I travel. The laptop
>  >  is a bit old - 6 years (Sotec 3120X) but it's the perfect size (12" screen
>  >  and 4.4 lbs.). The specs on it look pretty good but It's only got 384 MB
>  >  of memory and some it is used for the GPU (nominally 32MB but
>  >  could be 64MB).  So I've got a couple of questions:
>  >
>  >  (1) What distro would you recommend that has a window manager
>  >  and OpenOffice? (I can always install Openoffice later).
>  >
>  >  (2) What wireless PC Card do people recommend that works with
>  >  Linux but doesn't require ndiswrapper?
>  >
>  >  BTW - Right now I'm thinking about Fedora Core or Ubuntu with
>  >  XFCE and Gnome. I'll use XFCE for most things but when I need
>  >  to do system stuff I may crank up Gnome. I'm thinking about the
>  >  CentOS 5 as well.
>  >
>  >  TIA!
>  >
>  >  Jeff
>  >
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