LXDE on rawhide and LXDE Live CD spin
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 18 02:30:29 UTC 2008
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear fellow testers,
> >
> > I welcome the arrival of LXDE on Fedora. Upon its
> coming in, I wonder what are the requirements for it. I
> have an old box that refuses to install Fedora 8, or Fedora
> 9 because some driver or other detail kills the installation
> process. I tried the XFCE spin and it fails to run as well
> :(, but upon seeing the LXDE coming in, it might be a good
> idea to try and install rawhide on this machine and install
> LXDE, I can try on another older machine at school, but I
> want to see if I can install ext4 or not when new Beta
> release(s) appear for F10.
> >
> > Also upon Rahul's spin of XFCE live cd, how about
> a spin of LXDE for those older machines. I can surely test
> this as a colleage has very old machines which ran windows
> 98 with 32/or 64 MB of Ram and if LXDE works under such
> harsh, below average conditions, I can gladly and cheerfully
> attempt to install Fedora with LXDE on those machines and
> make the students test the machines out. Windows 98 freezes
> most of the time and my colleage decided not to connect the
> machines to avoid problems. But I think this is a great
> opportunity to test LXDE and see if it can power on those
> old machines.
> >
> > Any ideas, advice suggestions. I will try to convince
> my colleague or otherwise borrow at least two machines to
> make some tests.
>
> Follow
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
>
> If you install livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts from
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448072
>
> It is fairly easy to create a new spin based on existing
> working
> examples including xfce, kde, desktop ks files. Someone
> would have to
> volunteer to maintain it going forward however. That
> requires more
> commitment.
>
> Rahul
Thank you again Rahul for your prompt response. I will take a look into it. This is a very promising desktop for older machines which we have plenty of at school. They might take some to the warehouse to auction them off, If I can get a livecd and inject some life into them with LXDE that would be great :)
Regards,
Antonio
BTW,
I have visited the following page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristophWickert/FedoraLite
but I cannot find out the end low requirements to get this working on a system or try it out with a livecd. I run rawhide and have the livecd-tools installed.
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