[ltp] Lightening Debian

[Burkhard Woelfel]

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On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:29, cr wrote:
> 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.

Is the processor really running at 550MHz or does your model scale it down to 
save energy?

Regards, 
- - Burkhard

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