• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    Someone gave me an 8 year old laptop to clear down. So I figured I’d swap in an SSD and put Linux on it.

    Damn thing wouldn’t even boot. Wasn’t even that bad a spec machine. 6GB RAM should have been plenty. Shame really, was actually looking forward to seeing how far it had come in the last ten years or so.

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      9 months ago

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      Hmm. There’s no reason anything that supports 6gb RAM shouldn’t run Linux. I’ve janked together much worse Lubuntu rigs before.

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      9 months ago

      6gb ram is plenty, especially for a lightweight distro like antix or slax.

      From AntiX:

      It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 512MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX. Installation to hard drive requires a minimum 7.0GB hard disk size.