[Ilugc] which linux flavor to use???

krishna chaitanya arava krish.arava at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 08:36:32 IST 2006


Slackware is the best for PC's with fewer configuration. But installation
and configuring X is a bit tweaky at times.

System requirements for slackware.

http://www.slackware.com/install/sysreq.php

I just wanted to know is there any light weight Ubuntu distro available?

On 10/26/06, KaruppuSwamy.T <karuppuswamy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bharath Narayan wrote:
> > hi,
> > i have a PC with 160MB of RAM, 20GB hard disk, P3 processor (733MHz).
> > which would be the best linux that i can install on this machine?
> > i would use it for basic application devlopment (prog in C,C++ and
> > scripts).
> >
> > thanks and regards
> > Bharath
> >
> Do a Debian base installation and then apt-get install <blah..blah>
> which ensures better performance on low end machines (I did it with my
> PIII/192MB - having xfce4 and other applications)
>
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