Linked by Og Maciel on Tue 25th Jan 2005 20:24 UTC
In my never ending search for the ultimate challenge, I decided to remove Gentoo Linux from my trusty laptop and install something else that wasn't as resource starving. Thus, Debian was selected.
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I have a 350MHz K6 128MB RAM, 4GB HD laptop that runs Debian unstable with the 2.6 kernel just fine.
However, it is too slow for XINE, and I don't bother trying to run KDE or GNOME on it. OLWM works fine as a window manager, and the Debian menus are automatically populated no matter which window manager you choose.
While I agree that a 4GB hard drive is absurd for anyone trying to view movies, everything I need in terms of Debian OS and applications only takes up about 1GB. More than enough space left over for everything the little machine is good for.
I agree with the other posters, less than 128MB of RAM makes for a difficult time.