On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 20:42 +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. For context, my home machine is a PII/128MB. > > Some questions: > > > But, regarding Fedora, please do keep in mind that their installer > > (anaconda) is a monster (i guess that's why the name ;-), especially > > when used in graphical mode (I think the minimal requirement is 128 MB). > > This will not be an issue once installation is complete, right?
yep. and I think text mode install will be relatively painless. > > > > And the recommended RAM requirement for GNOME 2.6 is also 128 MB. > > I don't actually run the Gnome desktop (I use Fvwm), but some of the > applications I use are probably Gnome-based. Does the recommendation > hold for this scenario also? Ahh.. if you are not running GNOME, then things should be OK. The main memory hogs are usually Nautilus (though for the record, Nautilus is blazingly fast in GNOME 2.6) and gnome-settings-daemon, and they don't run if you are running Fvwm. -thanks- Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://clai.net/sayamindu] Free Software: the Software by the People, of the People and for the People. Develop! Share! Enhance! and Enjoy! -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
