[indiana-discuss] how to install with only 256MB memory?

[Brian Gupta]

Dennis/Tim,

Hobbyist/hackers generally aren't going to be able to afford to designate
their primary machine towards testing and developing Indiana... lowering the
minimum hardware bar is a worthwhile goal. (Some distros install no default
GUI and have you get whatever GUI you want from a repo.).

XFCE is an alternative desktop manager for lighter weight systems that is
starting to see traction. http://www.xfce.org/

Being that everyone loves Ubuntu, you might want to try Xubuntu (XFCE based
Ubuntu) http://www.xubuntu.org/get (128MB to run, 192MB to install).

Cheers,
Brian

On Dec 11, 2007 4:03 PM, Tim Foster <Tim.Foster at sun.com> wrote:

> Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > I'm beginning to wonder about the value of targetting small systems.
> Isn't
> > everything being sold today shipping with 1GB RAM minimal ?
>
> Totally agree - I'm just a cheapskate, and this is as easy a way for me
> to learn about the distro constructor as anything else :-)
>
>        cheers,
>                        tim
> --
> Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
>                                  http://blogs.sun.com/timf
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