[GRASSLIST:5689] Re: GRASS in old hardware

[Jack Varga]

For my money, hands down that would be Debian.  Debian's package manager 
(apt-get) is much more effective (IMO) at controlling not installing 
what you don't specifically request, particularly all the fluff that the 
other distros load by default, (as I close my Tux Racer and Frozen 
Bubbles windows).

You should consider compiling your own kernel, removing kernel drivers 
you don't absolutely need and compiling kernel modules for what you do 
need (when you can).  You'll likely want a small/compact kernel image 
(bzipped) so you can squeeze it into your available memory.

And as for Grass, same goes.  Don't include anything you don't need. 
Doesn't take much to create race conditions with 64mb.  Don't create too 
big a swap partition either.  Also, I would recommend using a window 
manager (assuming you'll be running X) that doesn't eat up cpu cycles 
like KDE and/or Gnome.

Kenneth Cabrera wrote:
> Hi GRASS users:
> 
> I want to know which is the smallest hardware configuration that
> a full GRASS is installed.
> 
> Which LINUX distribution is better to support GRASS on a small
> and old hardware configuration for example a 486 procesor with 64 MB?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Kenneth Cabrera
>