1mb = 1024 kilobytes.
219+1443 = 1662. ???
No it isn’t … so post it anyway.
Mem & Swap were the only things listed…
EDIT: Ah wait I see. The “+/- buffers/cache” I thought that was just part of the Mem part. My bad. 
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No it’s not … the figure in red is what we were after:
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1498 273 1224 0 41 136 -/+ buffers/cache: 95 1402 Swap: 497 0 497
Which shows memory usage, not including buffers/caches.
The above is my Peppermint netbook … I think it’s 93MB by default … I’ve added a few things at boot.
(Wireless enabled, and 3 active VPN tunnels)
Ah, well like I said… it’s around 220Mb.
I think without some extra RAM that might be stretching a lower spec netbook … including caches/buffers it would already be swapping out on a standard AA1 with only 512NB … but it would be interesting to try it I suppose.
I added it with a caveat…are there any others on that list that I should add an asterisk to as well?
AntiX:
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
here’s the wiki
Asturix lite:
http://asturix.com/lite/
System requirements (according to their website):
Recommended = 128MB RAM, 5GB HDD space
Minimum = 40MB RAM, 2GB HDD space.
Can’t say I’ve tried it (or Asturix ‘full’), but I’ll probably take a looksee at some point
According to Distrowatch the FULL version is based on Ubuntu, but uses its own desktop “Asturix On” … previous versions used GNOME/KDE.
Distrowatch page for the full version (not the ‘Lite’ version) here:
Doesn’t seem to much info available for the ‘Lite’ version … but that’s a small system resource footprint so should probably be in your list
Updated the list (finally) lol
i’ve got vectorlinux running on a acer aspireone (the 8gb ssd 512meg one ) runs fine
[user@localhost ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1508 1273 234 0 20 543
-/+ buffers/cache: 709 798
Swap: 1027 0 1027
Wow, so even with 15 tabs open on FF, writer, terminal, pdf reader, I’m only using half the memory? No, really the buffers and caches are on the RAM, right,
or on the SSD? If on SSD why add them to RAM mem?
OK, you’re using 1273 of 1508 leaving 234 free.
But if you DON’T include buffers/cache (stuff that’s been cached into RAM to make your system quicker) your OS and software are only using 709
But if that’s from a cold boot to the desktop, and without starting any applications … that’s quite high, specially for Peppermint or I’d expect Linpus.
I’ve added which distros are rolling-release. Are there any others that are also rolling-release?
All of them can have a rolling release if on a CDROM 
Lol!! I see what you did there
I might be wrong but I do not think Crunchbang is a rolling release. :-
That was my main reason to move from Crunchbang to Archbang
Ah quite right. I was confused…I’ll edit that
So…have there been any developments in the world of netbook/old hardware Linux recently? I know Peppermint 4 should be out sometime in the next 2 weeks (right? right?? ) but other than that is there anything new happening?
Doing some looking around it seems that a lot of the netbook-specific distros have kind of died off, with the exception of the !bangs and Peppermint.
So...have there been any developments in the world of netbook/old hardware Linux recently?
Not much changed. Fuduntu gone way of the Dodo.
I have replaced ArchBang on my AA1 with Debian Wheezy LXDE. No problems to report.
Everything works OTB.
I would say just stick with any distro with Openbox or LXDE desktop enviroment an you are good to go.
You get a decent performance on a small(ish) footprint. No need for netbook specific distros any more.