Lightweight distros with GPUTILS in repository
Jason Hsu <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:38:08 +0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.gnupic |
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I'm trying to program microcontrollers in C on a 10-year-old laptop with only 256 MB of RAM and a 500 MHz processor. I tried the version of Debian stable with XFCE as the default but gave up on it because I couldn't figure out how to get it to connect to the wireless Internet. I tried Xubuntu, but it was slow. Even with no applications running, it used swap space. As I mentioned before, I never was able to get GPUTILS to work in Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux. The dependency hell was too overwhelming. Are there any lightweight distros that offer GPUTILS in the repository? Is there anything I can do in a distro to substantially reduce its RAM requirement? -- Jason Hsu <[email protected]>