Charles E Taylor IV <tomalek <at> mindspring.com> writes:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:48:00 +0100 (CET)
duncan <at> lithgow-schmidt.dk wrote:
> The laptop has fc2 running now, but not very well - i just installed it
> 'out of the box' with no tweaks. I now want to put fc3 on with whatever
> tweaks people can suggest.
Run XFCE4, not Gnome or KDE. That will save you a *lot* of memory which
your system can use for other things.
Disable any services you don't absolutely need after the installation.
FC3 runs more stuff by default than you will need on an
older box.
For casual browsing on old hardware, you might want to install dillo in
addition to firefox/mozilla. See
http://www.dillo.org/
Hi Charles, thanks for the reply...
Sounds good, but i'm a linux virgin (well nearly).
1. So in order to use XFCE4 instead of Gnome or FDE what do i do? Do I specify
that in anaconda or later? Also, is that a minimal graphical environmental or
just a terminal?
2. I understand the idea of disabling unneeded services, but how do I know
which are unimportant? I know that in anaconda i can select aminimal
instalation - is that minimal enough for this?
3. I'll take a look at dillo - thanks
Duncan