[lug] The slow-lowmemory-headless-server-with-plenty-of-disk distro?

[Daniel Webb]

I had several systems in this size range running Debian stable and it worked
very well.  The Debian base install (don't choose anything at install-time
then add packages) is very small, something like 200M if I remember right.
You can create a very usable server with all the normal services with 500M
in Debian quite quickly and easily.  

One of the things I have yet to try with my new Ubuntu install is how easy
will it be to strip out some of the packages that I don't use, since these old
laptops have small drives.  For a server I think it's easier to start with
nothing and add things manually though.