Recommended memory size for F19?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Apr 13 22:37:39 UTC 2013


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> For seriously lightweight window managers, I've been using "vtwm" for
> years, still published by the Penguin Liberation Front and listed at
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/13029794/dir/mandriva_2010/com/vtwm-5.4.7-1plf.i586.rpm.html.

Be warned that PLF packages are NOT intended for Fedora.

> The Penguin Liberation Front has been a very useful resource, for years,
> of components whose licenses are confusing or problematic: the old "xv"
> and "twm" programs, "libdvdcss" for ripping DVD's, MPEG libraries, and
> Pine and daemontools before they had their licensing revised. I understand
> why those components can't always be included in a completely open
> distribution with US based resources and primary maintainers like Fedora.
> But man, they're useful if you can accept the licensing personally or
> you're in a country with sane laws about DRM.

For Fedora, there is RPM Fusion which provides such packages (and a separate
repository for libdvdcss at rpm.livna.org).

        Kevin Kofler



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