Subject: Re: Installfest feedback
From: Matthew Schumacher (schu@schu.net)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 12:02:29 AKDT
What's a good reason not to use KDE or Gnome. I use window maker
because it is so much smaller.
schu
Justin Dieters wrote:
> A medium-sized install of RedHat 7.3 (2 GB of stuff or so) took about 2
> hours on my PII 266 laptop with 64 MB ram off of a 24x CD-ROM, just to
> install everything to the HD - and that doesn't count post-install
> stuff, like device setup, installing Java, OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc.
>
> Keep that in mind, that although Linux can be put on older machines,
> time contraints may prevent it. Also, we don't want people to be
> dissapointed when KDE 3 doesn't run very fast on their 486SX/25 with 16
> meg ram ;) Even with the above mentioned laptop, I try stay at the
> command line if I can help it, otherwise I spend 90% of my time waiting
> for it to crunch on the swap file. (64 megs more ram would probably
> alliviate(sp?) most of the problem though).
>
> Justin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:46 am
> Subject: Re: Installfest feedback
>
>
>>Sounds good to me. I know that I don't like working on a slow
>>computer.Maybe the distro guru's can provide some suggestions?
>>
>>Chris.
>
>
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