Mepis Linux only needs 512 MB??
Well, that kind of answers a question we were discussing
I see that. But by the same token, Mint (13, 14, 15, 16) all say they will run in 512k but each .iso gets bigger so the live DVD won't work on limited ram machines, or so it seems..
Added Mepis to the list of distros to consider for that project.. ;-)
It will actually run on a bit less than that, but it will be sluggish. I found that with 256 Megs that switching over to an alternative desktop such as lxde instead of KDE improves its speed considerably, if you do not mind a bit of ugliness. I preferred the speed increase and played with it a bit until I found a different desktop (lxde) that was faster and not too ugly, but the apps that came as the default in the distro made it worthwhile to install it, since it was amazingly easy to share a directory across the network, add users, and reconfigure the network settings when necessary. Really a stable distro.