On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:38:59AM +0530, Rajkumar Andrews wrote: > a) I've managed to install Red Hat 7.2 on a Pentium 100Mhz with 64mb > ram as well as on a Pentium 166MMX with 32mb ram using the TEXT mode > install and with the barest minimum to boot into a console mode > system. The 'bloat' occurs at the GUI level; when X comes into the > picture, together with KDE or GNOME or both.
Please fix your line length. I know that the bloat comes from the GUI, but I am trying to put together a system with good GUI features for a simple user - my mom, for example. All I can hope is to use various tweaks to minimise the bloat, but the tweaks should be simple enough to put in a generic HOWTO. > b) I presume the discussion here is based for standalone PCs. If you > are on a network then a basic install with just the kernel and some > utilities (bash, etc.) on a single PC and running X and KDE/GNOME from > a powerful server can be very effective and powerful. This can be > done very easily using a pure 'modern' distro (Red Hat, Mandrake, > SuSE, ...). X cannot be run on a different machine. > c) The lightest distro I have had is mine-own! Start from a machine > with everything (in source) on it and then start compiling kernels > yourself, then compile ***everything*** for your end-PC on the end-PC. Linux-from-scrath, you mean? Maybe if it is easy enough to do without "expert" supervision ... Sameer. -- MTech Student, Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
