Sameer wrote: >>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. At your behest I've fixed 'outgoing messages to wrap at 74' in Sylpheed. >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. Please explain that to me. I find an apparent contradiction when you say 'good GUI features' and 'tweaks to be simple enough'. In my mind features are features -- simple or complicated. ALL features, IMHO, may or may not create 'bloat'. One needs to decide and sometimes the open source technologies can you an options list which may seem to be too much to decide from. >> 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. Are you telling me X cannot run as fact or as you telling me it can't run in the environment you have currently? >> 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 ... Again, 'easy enough' is a relative matter. When I started out years ago I didn't even know that X gave me multiple terminals which could be accessed using the Ctrl+Alt+F7...F12 on one SINGLE machine! I thought only the 'rocket scientist category' folks among the computer world could do such a thing; and when I heard about it I didn't know how to actually do it (in fact I didn't even have enough courage to ask Raju Mathur who used to work at SGI in Delhi and living very close to my residence on which keystroke combination to use to achieve this miracle.) I finally asked on this very mailing list and I got offline answers from some blessed guys at IISc Bangalore who decided to send me email without a proper return address! I learnt and I survived, both. Why don't you go through the Linux-From-Scratch HOWTO and see if you can do something better than them?! Theirs is a full-blown thing which you may not need for your Mum. My humble advice is to really start compiling kernels and things yourself. Distros are, well... ahem.... really I need to take a break :-) >Sameer. RKA ------------------------------------------------------- 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
