Best text-based speakup linux install

[Jude DaShiell]

Depending on the computer's type of connections maybe an external hard 
drive with external drive holder could increase that disk space and ide 
hard drives really aren't that expensive any longer.  An internal drive 
could run the system and the /home and certain other partitions could 
live on the external drive.  Someone knowledgeable with Linux hardware 
operations would be needed to set that up though.

On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 23:49:47
> From: Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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> Subject: Re: Best text-based speakup linux install
> 
> By 512-Mb, I assume the gentleman means amount of RAM. If that's
> correct, then I can tell you an install of the devuan 1.0 beta without
> a GUI runs just fine in a virtualbox guest with 512 megs of
> ram. Therefore, debian 8 would run fine as well. A system with 512
> megs of RAM probably has something like a pentium II/III
> CPU. Gnome/orca could probably run on that, but it would be a slow
> experience most likely.
>
> Now, if 512-mb means hard drive ... ... a minimal install of the
> latest devuan and debian takes about 400 megs of space. So it could be
> done, but ...
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Joseph Norton wrote:
>> Hi listers:
>>
>> 
>> 
>> I had a gentleman write me off-list and he told me he has a 512-Mb system
>> he'd like to install some kind of text-based distro on.
>>
>> 
>> 
>> I think he could still even install Debian without the X system, but, I'm
>> not sure which release to point him to.
>>
>> 
>> 
>> Also, I bet Arch would be another good possibility.
>>
>> 
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
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