On 26 February 2013 12:21, Baskar Selvaraj <[email protected]> wrote:
> We currently setup F18 (i386) on Core-2 Duo / i3 / i5 type processor > configurations. > > As many engineering colleges still have P4 / Dual Core processor with > 1 GB RAM we setup using Fedora 14 which performs well on these > hardwares. Most colleges we do workshop provide only lower > configurations for GNU/Linux lab setup and and use WinXP in highend > configurations (say i5). > > Also the pretty old GNOME 2 style interface is the other reason which > usually colleges like in Fedora Linux. > Better solution would be to use XFCE + latest distribution. If they are not going to get updates or not able to install some development package then it defeats the main purpose of using Linux. Also 1GB is good enough even for gnome-shell (so xfce is not a problem). Mate can also be used in latest OS if they want gnome-2 interface. Hope this helps, Prasanna Kumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
