Updated Ubuntu Mini-RAM HOWTO

[Giovanni Sce]

Hi Oliver,
I'm very interested about low end system configurations,
I know of most of your suggestions, if you have more
or place to look at, I'd be glad to learn more.

Thanks,

Gio

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Quoting Oliver Grawert <hostmaster at grawert.net>:

> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 26.12.2004, 11:25 -0500 schrieb Giovanni Sce:
> > Is this on Ubunto web site too? A wiki page?
> > > Thanks to your comments and suggestions I updated the Mini-RAM HOWTO:
> > >
> > > see http://www.binonabiso.com/en/Ubuntu-miniRAM-HOWTO.html
> yes, it would be nice if this would get added to the wiki....
> even though i would call it mini disk howto, as the apps selected there
> (mozilla suite/openoffice) surely wont run below 128MB....
>
> i woud suggest something like balsa or sylpheed as mailer and firefox
> (or probably dillo for extreme small systems) as a browser. also the
> office tools from the gnome suite (abiword, gnumeric) are way smaller
> then openoffice.
>
> there probably should be 2 or 3 different setups (i.e. for very small
> systems (64-128) and middle sized systems (128-256))
>
> btw, disabling some of the 6 virtual consoles in /etc/inittab saves
> about 4MB of memory for each disabled one (google will show several
> other things you can do to save mem in linux....)
>
> :)
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>
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