Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
If the problem was purely RAM then you don't need to do anything exotic--Ubuntu offers versions with both the XFCE (lightweight) and LXDE (SUPER lightweight) desktop environments. All 64-bit, of course, so if you genuinely can't install a 64-bit OS on this thing then that might be a problem.
I don't know. All I know is that nothing happened when I had a stick with the latest Mint version plugged in.