On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:04 -0500, Chu Jeang Tan wrote:
Looks like it'll be painful to use FC in this laptop?
That's too strict, ...
Even for bare minimum install and then just add KDE?
... this is the point: Running KDE, openoffice and "playing videos" are "heavy-weight" tasks.
Running and using them on such a machine is technically possible, but won't be "real fun" and won't be "lightning-fast".
Alternatively, I've had great experience with lean Slackware installations, except that it takes more effort to get things up to date. Usually just FTP download the updates and manually installing them.
What I said above isn't limited to Fedora. The issues are independent of a particular distro - The problems will be similar on all distros, because the issues are these applications' demands/resource-requirements.
If I were you, simply try it to get an impression.
Ralf