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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I know that the person is not <font size="2">asking this, but it wou<font size="2">ld seem that it might be possible to bring along some ram for that laptop. I think that ddr is probably used and it would be easy to find 512mb modules really cheap now and bring a couple of them along so that the laptop could actually run some program after booting up. 1gb ram would seem minimal to run mo<font size="2">st anyt<font size="2">hing - even on linux.
<br /><font size="2">Ken Ly<font size="2">nes</font></font>
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<br /> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:48:48 -0600 (CST)
<br /> From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l@gmail.com>
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<br /> I'm visiting family in Ecuador. A student's laptop is unusable with Win
<br /> 7, and I see that Win 7 requires 2x as much memory as he has. Memory is
<br /> probably really pricey here.
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<br /> Ubuntu 12.10 says it requires 768 MB RAM. What can run well with only 495
<br /> MB RAM? Does it have a good repository?
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<br /> I remember Jason Hsu's Swift Linux -- I suppose that fits the bill. What
<br /> else?
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<br /> Mike
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<br /> Puppy Linux?
<br /> On Dec 23, 2012 11:49 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> wrote:
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<br /> > I'm visiting family in Ecuador. A student's laptop is unusable with Win
<br /> > 7, and I see that Win 7 requires 2x as much memory as he has. Memory is
<br /> > probably really pricey here.
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<br /> > Ubuntu 12.10 says it requires 768 MB RAM. What can run well with only 495
<br /> > MB RAM? Does it have a good repository?
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<br /> > I remember Jason Hsu's Swift Linux -- I suppose that fits the bill. What
<br /> > else?
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<br /> > Mike
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<br /> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:52:54 -0600 (CST)
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<br /> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Mike Miller wrote:
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<br /> > I'm visiting family in Ecuador. A student's laptop is unusable with Win
<br /> > 7, and I see that Win 7 requires 2x as much memory as he has. Memory is
<br /> > probably really pricey here.
<br /> >
<br /> > Ubuntu 12.10 says it requires 768 MB RAM. What can run well with only
<br /> > 495 MB RAM? Does it have a good repository?
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<br /> > I remember Jason Hsu's Swift Linux -- I suppose that fits the bill.
<br /> > What else?
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<br /> I forgot to add -- if it supports Spanish, that would help tremendously.
<br /> In fact, if it can't do Spanish, I think I'll have to find something else.
<br /> I don't know -- maybe all Linux distros are very language-friendly like
<br /> Ubuntu.
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<br /> Mike
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<br /> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:22:24 -0600
<br /> From: Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>
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<br /> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] only 495 MB RAM -- what to install?
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<br /> For a first-time Linux user with only 495 MB of RAM, I recommend Puppy Linux, antiX Linux, or (maybe) Linux Mint Debian Edition. All three of these distros are well-established, user-friendly, and MUCH lighter than Ubuntu, which is now as heavy as Windows Vista/7.
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<br /> Puppy Linux has great codec/driver support and runs on computers as old as the Windows 98 era, but its software repository is small. Of course, this wouldn't be a concern for the average person on the street. (The average person on the street isn't using Ruby on Rails, Octave, etc.)
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<br /> antiX Linux runs on computers as old as the Windows 98 era and has a big software repository (fully Debian compatible), but it doesn't have the codec/driver support of Puppy Linux and Linux Mint. So this isn't the distro for playing DVDs.
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<br /> Linux Mint Debian Edition has a big software repository (fully Debian compatible) and has great codec/driver support but isn't as lightweight as Puppy Linux and antiX Linux.
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<br /> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:48:48 -0600 (CST)
<br /> Mike Miller <mbmiller+l@gmail.com> wrote:
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<br /> > I'm visiting family in Ecuador. A student's laptop is unusable with Win
<br /> > 7, and I see that Win 7 requires 2x as much memory as he has. Memory is
<br /> > probably really pricey here.
<br /> >
<br /> > Ubuntu 12.10 says it requires 768 MB RAM. What can run well with only 495
<br /> > MB RAM? Does it have a good repository?
<br /> >
<br /> > I remember Jason Hsu's Swift Linux -- I suppose that fits the bill. What
<br /> > else?
<br /> >
<br /> > Mike
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<br /> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:02:16 -0600
<br /> From: Michael Moore <stuporglue@gmail.com>
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<br /> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> wrote:
<br /> > For a first-time Linux user with only 495 MB of RAM, I recommend Puppy Linux, antiX Linux, or (maybe) Linux Mint Debian Edition. All three of these distros are well-established, user-friendly, and MUCH lighter than Ubuntu, which is now as heavy as Windows Vista/7.
<br /> >
<br /> > Puppy Linux has great codec/driver support and runs on computers as old as the Windows 98 era, but its software repository is small. Of course, this wouldn't be a concern for the average person on the street. (The average person on the street isn't using Ruby on Rails, Octave, etc.)
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<br /> Straight up Debian might not be a bad choice either. Just make sure to
<br /> install one of the lightweight destkops instead of Gnome or KDE. LXDE,
<br /> XFCE, Fluxbox, etc. It has full Spanish support and of course, a
<br /> fantastic repository. It's also got plenty of online tutorials.
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<br /> One other thing that may be helpful about Debian is that you can
<br /> download the Debian repositories on CD, so they can install what they
<br /> want without requiring a network connection.
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<br /> Michael Moore
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