Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Chris Murphy writes:

>
> On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:25 PM, "Powell, Michael" <Michael_Powell at mentor.com>  
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2014-05-31 at 16:36 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >>  I would have installed Fedora, but they say the requirements are at
> >> least 4GB RAM.
> >
> > 2GB should be possible...
> >
> > From the official Fedora 20 release notes
> > <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect- 
> Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html#hardware_overview>:
> >
> > Minimum System Configuration
> >
> > 1GHz or faster processor
> > 1GB System Memory
> > 10GB unallocated drive space
>
> Yes it will install and work. With a web browser it's a bit tight, and may  
> end up swapping to disk. Neverthless, impressive, right now for me on OS X  
> the kernel is taking up 700MB alone; and "wired" memory is 1.34GB. So yeah…  
> oinkster.

I have Fedora 20 running on a laptop with 1.5gb of RAM. Gnome desktop is  
slow, but usable.

I also have it running on an eee 900 mini-laptop, also with 1.5gb or RAM  
using the XFCE desktop. It's slow, and just bearable.

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