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Hi All, I'm also interested in running Linux on a low spec PC.. 486 laptop /w 16Mb RAM is the lowest spec. A lot of people have said "Linux runs happily on low spec PCs" but what I am now coming to realise is they meant "Linux runs happily in COMMAND LINE on low spec PCs". Could anyone suggest the best (smallest) Window Manager to run, say Vector or Peanut Linux using XFree? KDE seems a tad overkill and Gnome is not a whole heck of a lot better :) Kind regards, Julian On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 10:43, Ian P. Christian wrote: > Quoting Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > And so the journey continues and I am about to embark on a very long leg > > - I am currently setting up and building a Linux network using old 133's > > and 266's with 2 gig HD's and 32/64 meg Ram. Does anyone have a copy of > > a smaller distro that I could get a copy of - something like the Rule > > Linux - or does somebody have any ideas on how to load up Linux on these > > low specs? And if I were to try to upgrade I suppose the best thing I > > could do would be to give them extra Ram - any comments. > > I use lower spec machines for some of my test stuff, and I run debian on ther no > problem! It's a little some for compiling and things, but that can be > expected. Debian is perfectly happy to run on such a small HDD. I'm sure > nearly any distro would be happy to run on that kind of machine though wouldn't > it? > > > OH, btw, hello again all, I'm back. > > -- > Ian P. Christian :: pookey at pookey.co.uk :: http://pookey.co.uk > Pengus Hosting Solutions -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.