advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[anthony baldwin]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:51, Justin <eqisow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1001 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am considering installing ubuntu or something like that on some old,
>>>> small
>>>> machines. xubuntu could be a good choice (I understand that is based also
>>>> on
>>>> gtk, so most gnome programs should work). But even xubuntu could be to
>>>> large.
>>>>
>>>> What other good options are there, to maintain some compatibility with
>>>> gnome programs? We need absolutely GNU emacs with auctex for
>>>> tex/latex stuff, and abiword or even openoffice would be nice. Also
>>>> firefox.
>>>>
>>>> ¿What options are there?
>>>>
>>>> How small are we talking, here?
>>> Xubuntu is not really any slimmer than Gnome/KDE, despite what some here
>>> will tell you.
>> About 200 MB ram. Windows XP are running on those machines now, very slowly..
> 
> "Once installed, Xubuntu can run with starting from 192 (or even just
> 128) MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB
> RAM." (http://www.xubuntu.org/get)
> 
> 
>> We hope for something slim enough to be faster.
> 
> 
> I'd install Xubuntu and a simple window manager and then use that
> window manager instead of Xfce.
> 
> 
>    Florian

Then why wouldn't you just install crunchbang (ubuntu with openbox 
default wm)?
Or use an alternate install that doesn't include any wm, and install 
whichever other wm it is you want, (like fvwm, icewm, dwm, awm, xmonad, 
ion3, fluxbox or some other lite/fast wm)?

/tony

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