Tough standards but doable. If you want it to deal with media and everything, you are going to need a collection of programs, some of them non-free. Knoppix manages to do almost everything in less than 2 gigs and things change all the time, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about vida.
Mepis, despite all it comes with, takes less than 3gigs of drive space for system files and works well enough. Yes, it comes with all sorts of stuff, including Open Office, MySQL and Apache but it installs in 30 minutes and you can always remove the things you don't want. There are lots of media players too but the default KDE file associations keep me from getting confused about which one to use for what file. If you know exactly what you want, you can turn Mepis into it. For all the supposed bloat, I get great performance on a 650 Athlon and have gotten reasonable performance on a 233MHz PII. I'm happy that Mepis comes with so many editors. While I mostly use vi, there are dozens of specialty editors. OO is for Word junk, but has some other good programs. Quanta and Bluefish are for making quick web pages. Kate does everything. Emacs is supposed to be the coder's editor. Kdevelop is KDE's answer to visual studio. Kword is good for quick letters, papers and flyers that should be printed. Kmail is an excellent mail client. I would have no idea about half of these applications if they were not included in the install and things change all the time. Let me know how vida works and what programs are good and all purpose. On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... I'm just looking > for something using the 2.6 kernel that is designed for multimedia, web > browsing, and productitivity (office). Just your normal desktop. ... > > When I talk about bloat, I'm talking about having 6 word processors > installed by default, 5 media players, and a SQL server. I think you get > the point. I want a sleak, well thought out distro that works well.
