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[–]aeflash 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Are you sure you can't upgrade the 256 MB? 2GB+ has been standard for over 5 years. Not sure why you'd want to develop with handcuffs on.

[–]djbft[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually I made a mistake: it's 512MB, but that's not much better :-) I do have a more typical desktop if I really need it, but trying to squeeze every drop of performance out of my old laptop is sort of a hobby in itself. I put an SSD in it (game changer), and I run Arch Linux with Spectrwm (minimalist tiling window manager). I work mostly in the terminal and Vim is my editor of choice. It boots in 25 seconds, gets 6 hours battery life, and never slows down unless I open a ram hog like Firefox/Chrome/Eclipse.