Which Mint for 256MB RAM and Pentium III?

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hemimaniac

Re: Which Mint for 256MB RAM and Pentium III?

Post by hemimaniac »

actually i used trial and error + common sense. bum shows you what is running, starting and you can use it to tweak as per your needs, also on another note i added noatime to the fstab entries to cut down on disk writes
mychance

Re: Which Mint for 256MB RAM and Pentium III?

Post by mychance »

I have just installed BUM and realised it is the equivalent of "msconfing" with Windows, exactly what I was looking for :)

Thanks for the Hint !

I will make further researchs about noatime. I have no clues where to write this entry in etc/fstab.
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Re: Which Mint for 256MB RAM and Pentium III?

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Try this for etc/fstab: http://tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Opt ... sec73.html

For a lighter and faster system you could also start with a Debian minimal install:
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

Then install only what you need, for LXDE just run:
# apt-get install lxde-core
and go from there.

More info:
http://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment
http://wiki.debian.org/LXDE
http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian
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Re: Which Mint for 256MB RAM and Pentium III?

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