On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ubuntu 12.10 says it requires 768 MB RAM. What can run well with only 495 > MB RAM? Does it have a good repository? Debian still runs pretty well on 512MB, but you'll likely want to run XFCE instead of Gnome. Fedora now has an XFCE spin (likely in response to Gnome 3 being..... challenging) but I don't know what its requirement are. Without the bloat of Gnome or KDE, Linux still runs in a pretty small memory footprint. Best of luck and Merry Christmas! Brian