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

[Charles Shapiro]

I'm running Xubuntu (ubuntu + XFCE) fairly comfortably on a P3 with
768 mb.  It's got enough muscle to run Zope 2 and FireFox without any
obvious issues.

Alas, bruce ( http://code.google.com/p/bruce-tpt/ ) won't run on it
because it claims insufficient memory.

-- CHS


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
> 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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