By 512-Mb, I assume the gentleman means amount of RAM. If that's correct, then I can tell you an install of the devuan 1.0 beta without a GUI runs just fine in a virtualbox guest with 512 megs of ram. Therefore, debian 8 would run fine as well. A system with 512 megs of RAM probably has something like a pentium II/III CPU. Gnome/orca could probably run on that, but it would be a slow experience most likely. Now, if 512-mb means hard drive ... ... a minimal install of the latest devuan and debian takes about 400 megs of space. So it could be done, but ... Greg On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi listers: > > > > I had a gentleman write me off-list and he told me he has a 512-Mb system > he'd like to install some kind of text-based distro on. > > > > I think he could still even install Debian without the X system, but, I'm > not sure which release to point him to. > > > > Also, I bet Arch would be another good possibility. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
