At 10:07 PM +0930 6/6/07, Tim wrote: >Ralf Corsepius: >>> Please define "low-end", "your home country" and "your target audience" >>> and which implications this would have. > >Globe Trotter: >> Low-end <= 128 MB memory. CPU <= 1.4 GHz. > >The memory requirement's a bit of a problem, 256 megs is a more >practical low memory level, but I run slower CPUs than that. > >>> The question is: Why do you see a need to get around this at all? > >> Because Gnome and KDE seem to be too much of a bloat: often taking >> five minutes to perform an operation, such as post-login. > >Not here, they don't. Booting up takes mine about 1.5 minutes, and it'd >be quicker if I didn't run a few services. It's about 20 seconds more, >post bootup, to the graphical system is up and running. Again, that'd >be quicker if I hadn't added a few things to the taskbar. > > 1. 1.5 minutes booting > 2. logging in > 3. 20 seconds later, I can do what I want in my account > >> I was referrring to something called as "Minimal (server) install. > >Being a "server" doesn't require any graphical user interface. Gnome or >KDE don't have to be on the system, at all. Right. He wants a small (server) install to which he can add X and some small desktop (XFCE or Fluxbox). He probably also wants the various system-config-whatever tools without allowing them to pull in Gnome. And so on. Is the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC> <http://laptop.org/>) effort useful here? I see traffic about it on fedora-devel-list. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
