RFE: how to file

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Aug 5 17:52:25 UTC 2007


Globe Trotter wrote:

> 
> I am aware that xfce exists for F7 and before. I guess one thing I have been
> uncomfortable with is the fact that we can not seem to get xfce (or some other
> related DE) without all the gnome already being installed by default. Hence, I
> wanted to request a distribution with a lightweight DE. Sort of similar to
> xubuntu vis-a-vis ubuntu (and kubuntu) which is lightyears ahead of the last
> two. Fedora would also have the same speedup for those who care, and worry
> about bloat.

How about leading the effort for such a spin? Talk to the XFCE 
maintainer and help write a kickstart file. The kickstart file can be 
used to create Live images and you get a XFCE based Fedora spin. Not too 
much effort.

Rahul




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