On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Mike Miller wrote: > I'm visiting family in Ecuador. A student's laptop is unusable with Win > 7, and I see that Win 7 requires 2x as much memory as he has. Memory is > probably really pricey here. > > Ubuntu 12.10 says it requires 768 MB RAM. What can run well with only > 495 MB RAM? Does it have a good repository? > > I remember Jason Hsu's Swift Linux -- I suppose that fits the bill. > What else? I forgot to add -- if it supports Spanish, that would help tremendously. In fact, if it can't do Spanish, I think I'll have to find something else. I don't know -- maybe all Linux distros are very language-friendly like Ubuntu. Mike