On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> 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 :-) I did a quick and dirty test setup yesterday and was quite impressed. One of the tests was running a VMWare with 128MB and a tiny empty disk. The VM booted off the LTSP binaries merrily and was up and running within seconds. The server was a VM on my file server with 768MB RAM and the client was a VM on my linux laptop so everything did go through the network cable in the end. I've also tried an ancient 700MHz Pentium 3 laptop with 256MB RAM and that was way faster than the local Linux installation on the box so I think this setup is going to stay and will be in use instead of the local OS. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org