[ltp] Lightening Debian

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

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While folks on the list may well flame me for years, ...

I would also suggest a Gentoo installation specifically because you can
fully fine-tune what you want installed and what you don't want. This saves
precious disk and RAM space and also meets your educational goal of
teaching yourself "some stuff."  :)

I've used Linux on the desktop since 1998 and moved to Gentoo right after
its birth. I've taken systems that others thought were too old to run Red
Hat on { no further flames or comments required ;) }. I have successfully
installed Gentoo, running X w/ Fluxbox, Mozilla, Abiword, Apache, and MySQL
on a 200 MHz Pentium Pro with 16 MB of RAM and an 8 GB HD. The machine was
actually quite usable for web surfing and handling the web-driven pictures
database I had on it.

cr said the following on 2005.05.03 14:29:
> To everyone who said (correctly)  "add more RAM" - I'm working on it....   
> but meanwhile, I thought it would be a good exercise (and teach me some stuff 
> I probably ought to know) to try and make Sarge run in 64MB.    After all, 
> that's what Damn Small Linux and Morphix Light GUI and a few others do.   
> 
> It's also what standard Debian Woody does, perfectly happily, with no 
> tweaking whatever.
> 
> Actually,  If you look at the specs of my Thinkpad -   550MHz, 6GB hard 
> drive, 64MB  RAM - it becomes obvious that its speed is OK, its hard drive 
> space is big, just its RAM is very small. So, I can happily install all the 
> apps I want to, so long as I don't try to run them all at once.   This is 
> another reason I decided to try and use Debian Sarge rather than Damn Small 
> Linux etc - because those lightweight distros also aim at small size, which 
> is something I don't need, by cutting down on the apps they include.   
> 
> cr
> 

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