Actually using Fedora on your XO

[dave yates]

I agree completely. I think openbox with lxpanel, or just plain lxde is a
much better option.Openbox with lxpanel, and dillo runs quite nicely.


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Josh Bressers <bressers at redhat.com> wrote:

> So now that it seems we can all install and mostly boot the XO iwth Fedora
> 10, can
> anyone else actually use anything?
>
> I find the applications on this spin to be a bit of a letdown (they're all
> quite
> resource intense), and even when I shut off most services and gnome things,
> there
> isn't enough ram to actually do much (one Firefox instance takes care of
> what RAM
> is left).
>
> The best I could do last night was to drop RAM usage to a point where there
> was
> about 86 Megs free.  Firefox will gladly eat all this away though.
>
> So just for fun I tried out the F10 XFCE spin.  It runs quite nicely, from
> a performance perspective, it's acceptable with no changes.
>
> So here are my thoughts and fears.
>
> If we go with the F10 GNOME spin, there will be two likely reactions from
> users:
>
> If the user knows Fedora, they'll probably get annoyed they paid extra for
> their SD
> card because it's so slow.
>
> If they don't know Fedora, they're going to assume Fedora is a fat slow pig
> and
> sucks.
>
> The more I try to slim this down, the more frustrated I'm getting, and I
> like to
> think I'm a bit smarter than the average bear here.  Is there a reason we
> HAVE to
> use the GNOME spin for this, or can other options be considered?
>
> --
>    JB
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