[ltp] Lightening Debian

[cr]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 20:26, Burkhard Woelfel wrote:
> 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

I'm not sure.  The IBM specs say 'Intel Mobile Celeron at 550MHz or 500MHz 
depending on model'

I haven't bothered to check for the simple reason that processor speed 
doesn't seem to be the problem, since Woody runs some fairly hefty apps (e.g. 
Gimp) fine.

cr