[wellylug] Linux for portable / laptop

[Phil Daintree]

Puppy runs on 256Meg RAM - even had it going on a Pentium I, it doesn't feel like a compromise in terms of apps or asthetics either. Throw more hardware and it beomes a rocket ship. Less truely it IS more in Puppy's case.  If you install it as a full HD install boot is ~30 seconds straight to X. It amazes me but I have not tried mint or watt. The arguments about running a desktop as root are fun but pointless, especially when adding to the typing with sudo before commands is effectively the same in ubuntu. With a server then yes puppy is a bad choice.
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Phil
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E Chalaron <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I am running an open suse 11.4 i586 on a prehistoric Dell latitude 600 
>with 60 GB of drive and less than 1 GB of RAM.
>No issue at all.
>
>Cheers
>Edouard
>
>
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