Dennis/Tim, Hobbyist/hackers generally aren't going to be able to afford to designate their primary machine towards testing and developing Indiana... lowering the minimum hardware bar is a worthwhile goal. (Some distros install no default GUI and have you get whatever GUI you want from a repo.).
XFCE is an alternative desktop manager for lighter weight systems that is starting to see traction. http://www.xfce.org/ Being that everyone loves Ubuntu, you might want to try Xubuntu (XFCE based Ubuntu) http://www.xubuntu.org/get (128MB to run, 192MB to install). Cheers, Brian On Dec 11, 2007 4:03 PM, Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I'm beginning to wonder about the value of targetting small systems. > Isn't > > everything being sold today shipping with 1GB RAM minimal ? > > Totally agree - I'm just a cheapskate, and this is as easy a way for me > to learn about the distro constructor as anything else :-) > > cheers, > tim > -- > Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops > http://blogs.sun.com/timf > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
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