[ILUG-BOM] USB disk as RAM

[Sameep]

> My friend has a very low end computer with 128 MB RAM with Fedora 3
> running on it. Can he use a USB stick as RAM. I know that wont help
> much. But people at different forums have suggested to use USB flash
> drive as a SWAP partition to improve performance. Will that help to
> some extent?


You can ask your friend to use a light distro like Puppy or DSL.They are optimized for older / slower hardware and can work quite well even with 128 Mb RAM. 


Regards,

Sameep