On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Raseel Bhagat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Arindam <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have some aging / old desktops for which I am looking for >> appropriate distributions. I intend to use them as developer systems >> for some kernel development (noo-b there, modest intentions) but >> prefer an X installation. >> >> One desktop is a PIII 733 MHz with Intel 815e chipset, 512 Megs >> on-board memory and 40G hard drive. >> One is a P4 2.4 GHz with 1 G memory and 40G hard-drive. >> >> 1. Looked at Xubuntu for the lighter-weight XFCE and installed it on >> the P4 box. Liked it quite a bit - my first *buntu box - so far have >> only used FC/OpenSuSE. But, I want to hand pick packages that are >> installed and all said and done that seems not so straightforward with >> *buntus. Am I wrong there? >> >> 2. Are there Gentoo users who can tell me about their experience with >> Gentoo. Is it too much of a bother in the long run to perform software >> upgrades? >> >> 3. Any other lightweight but not too minimalistic distros? >> >> > With 512MB you can even have the Ubuntu Desktop with the full GUI. Just > don't opt for the advanced UI like compiz and all. >
My problem with *ubuntu is the inability to customize my install set before the installation. I don't want games, I don't want a whole lot of stuff. Is it recommended to remove packages from the standard desktop install of Ubuntu. I am uncomfortable with the idea because I can never know all the dependencies correctly and I don't want some library that will never be used lying around on my disk. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
