Actually using Fedora on your XO

[Josh Bressers]

So now that it seems we can all install and mostly boot the XO iwth Fedora 10, can
anyone else actually use anything?

I find the applications on this spin to be a bit of a letdown (they're all quite
resource intense), and even when I shut off most services and gnome things, there
isn't enough ram to actually do much (one Firefox instance takes care of what RAM
is left).

The best I could do last night was to drop RAM usage to a point where there was
about 86 Megs free.  Firefox will gladly eat all this away though.

So just for fun I tried out the F10 XFCE spin.  It runs quite nicely, from a performance perspective, it's acceptable with no changes.

So here are my thoughts and fears.

If we go with the F10 GNOME spin, there will be two likely reactions from users:

If the user knows Fedora, they'll probably get annoyed they paid extra for their SD
card because it's so slow.

If they don't know Fedora, they're going to assume Fedora is a fat slow pig and
sucks.

The more I try to slim this down, the more frustrated I'm getting, and I like to
think I'm a bit smarter than the average bear here.  Is there a reason we HAVE to
use the GNOME spin for this, or can other options be considered?

-- 
    JB