Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 23:47 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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.

Running KDE on my EEE with 2GB. Certainly slow but usable in a pinch.

poc