So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

[Bill Davidsen]

John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-04-27, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
>> * I prefer XFCE or similar lightweight desktops for these machines. I
>>   can get XFCE with xubuntu. I see no Fedora analog.
> 
> XFCE is in Fedora Extras. If you select the Fedora Extras repo at 
> install time, you can make XFCE your default desktop right from the 
> start. Not that it's hard to change to XFCE after you've installed... 
> 
I read that someone was going to develop a low memory spin for FC9 using 
XFCE. Not clear what the timeframe on that is. I can probably look up 
where I saw it.

But Redhat distributions are definitely going to take more memory to 
install than some others, and unless there's a trick they don't take 
advantage of a swap partition for install, even if you prepartition a 
disk to provide it. I believe Slackware will install in 32MB, I know I 
ran old SLS and Slackware in 16MB, and without X in 12MB. Memory cost 
the earth in those days.

I have a 16MB Pentium laptop I'd love to use for just taking notes in 
text mode, and stuff like that, Fedora sure won't fit anymore. ;-)

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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