On 6/6/07, Globe Trotter <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I have been trying to "sell" linux and fedora in my home country. What is a good option for those with low-end systems? I know that one option is to download Fedora and then add XFCE or Fluxbox, etc, but that brings in all this junk with KDE and Gnome. Is there an easy way to get around this? Somehow, minimall install seems far too clunky. Now, we all know that any bloated linux system is better than Windoze, but that is not the issue. I am looking for an unbloated system for people who can't upgrade every other month, or 5 years, really! Any thoughts? Best wishes, Trotter
Hi Trotter; It isn't a Fedora derivative, but you could check out Zenwalk linux (www.zenwalk.org). I use it two of my machines, an old Toshiba 1555cds laptop (176 MB RAM, 10 GB HD, 350 MHz PII) and it works acceptably well as a one-application-at-a-time machine, and an HP something or other with 256 MB RAM, 12 GB HD, and a 1.3 GHz PIII. On that machine it works quite well, even running OpenOffice.org 2.2.0. I would love to see a Fedora for older machines. I'd be happy to test and work on the English language files if anyone wants to start the ball rolling. Further on in the thread someone mentions OLPC; I think it would be worth looking at, but there are two things that might disqualify OLPC for me if I understand it correctly; first, the desktop interface is very different from what I might call "typical", and secondly I'd like a distribution that was compatible with the latest Fedora so updates would be available. -P
