XO: Not so good so far

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 07:29 -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > I was having similar issues. I added the persistent overlay and a swap
> > partition and that helped a lot. It would lock up before and now it is
> > slightly more usable. When I run top it reports about 85% idle on the
> > cpu. The tips here
> > http://katzj.livejournal.com/440444.html
> > helped but didn't quite work I had to look here
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo#Errors_and_Solutions
> > to get it all working.
>
> I admit, using the SD card for swap scares me a bit.  There are a finite number of
> writes available on those cards, and if you're hitting the swap hard, it's going
> to wear the card out.

Yes, I'm not convinced it's something that we want to recommend as a
general thing either.  But that doesn't make it a non-useful data point
in testing

> >From the small amount of testing I've done up to this point, I question if Gnome
> is going to be usable.  It eats up most of the RAM, leaving no space for
> anything else (like Firefox, which is also a pig).
> 
> I put together an XFCE spin last night to give that a try.  it works much
> better, which is no doubt expected.
> 
> So the question for the Fedora folks heading this up, is what are the expectations
> here?  Does this HAVE to run Gnome, or is something like XFCE acceptable?
> 
> Is the goal to run a custom spin, or to use one of the existing live images?

There are really two goals
1) To be able to give an option for people (especially G1G1 users) an
option for a more "traditional" computing experience
2) To do so using a stock Fedora live image

The fact that right now it's a custom image is largely a fluke of me not
having committed something I thought I did.  Hopefully as the snapshots
start up, we can switch over to the stock live images (although there's
one little interim hack I probably need to land).  But there is an XFCE
live image, so that's not entirely out of the question as the
recommendation; that said, GNOME vs XFCE doesn't seem to be the biggest
problem we're bumping up against at the moment

Jeremy