[CentOS] Building an "instant on" X terminal

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:

> If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by 
> the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried 
> it: It was impressively fast.

Will it run in 256Mb RAM and on 512Mb of disk?  'Cos that's all this
machine has :-)

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rgds
Stephen