On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:04 -0500, Chu Jeang Tan wrote: > Looks like it'll be painful to use FC in this laptop? That's too strict, ... > Even for bare minimum install and then just add KDE? ... this is the point: Running KDE, openoffice and "playing videos" are "heavy-weight" tasks. Running and using them on such a machine is technically possible, but won't be "real fun" and won't be "lightning-fast". > Alternatively, I've had great experience with lean Slackware > installations, except that it takes more effort to get things up to > date. Usually just FTP download the updates and manually installing > them. What I said above isn't limited to Fedora. The issues are independent of a particular distro - The problems will be similar on all distros, because the issues are these applications' demands/resource-requirements. If I were you, simply try it to get an impression. Ralf
