Re: net book (small) install advice

Robert Smith <[email protected]>
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--- On Sat, 1/29/11, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Richard Reina <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUNI] net book (small) install advice
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 9:38 PM

I have an ASUS netbook with about a 4GB hard drive that is currently running Unbuntu-Gnome but is maxed out on space.  All I really use it for is to run procmail, mysql and some other perl scripts that manipulate pdfs and text files. I was wondering if someone could recommend an install for it that would take up a lot less space.  A graphical interface would be nice as I occasionally would like to look at pdfs with evince, but if I had to I could do with out it.  If anyone has any advise on small installs and can let me know I would really appreciate it.


Have a great night.

Richard


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Sorry to be a Johnny-come-lately to this, but I've been housecleaning my email and just came across it. My first Asus Eee was the old 701 4G Surf, with a 4GB SSD. I currently have an Eee 900 with the 16GB SSD. I have run #!CrunchBang with great success on both of these machines. The version I used had OpenBox. I'd think the Xfce version would take up more space. The developer is putting out a new version, based on Debian rather than Ubuntu, but it has been slow in the making. I believe the last stable version was based on Ubuntu 9.10 which is still supported with security updates.

Good luck!

Rob

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