[ale] Linux without any of the XUBUNTU, GNOME, KUBUTNU but simple window manager

[Jeff Hubbs]

  I've set up a few machines of this caliber with Gentoo/XFCE.  KDE or 
Gnome with <1GiB RAM is a bit painful even with Gentoo (although you can 
eat into that pain by paying extra attention to making your swapping 
faster).

See
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop

Warning:  this will take quite a while to build and make current.  
Distcc and ccache can help:  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml.  
Because your target is a PIII, any i686 from Pentium Pro on up will do 
as distcc nodes.

- Jeff

On 8/10/10 11:56 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> I have a weak machine that has on ly 768MB ram in it.  It is a P3 
> computer.
>
> Can I install Linux with basic X manager like flux box or something ?  
> How do I do that ?
>
> Which Ubuntu should I be installing then ?
>
> -Narahari
>
>
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