I need help with Fedora

Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 21 11:05:50 UTC 2008


Hi

Or you can install Fedora as usual, and install a more lightweight 
desktop like, xfce or icewm or windowmaker and change your session at gdm.

Also helps if one disable a few services.

Regards

Marcelo



Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2008 08:59:57 aakash sharma wrote:
>   
>> The live CD distros which I have used
>>
>> 1. DyneBolic (best distro for me)
>> 2. Ubuntu (took hell lot of time to boot)
>> 3. Gentoo (couldn't start GUI)
>> 4. DSL (not as good as DyneBolic)
>>
>>
>> See guys, the problem with using LiveCD is that I can't save my data and
>> there is no customization.
>>
>> Every time I boot using LiveCD i need to run a series of jobs for
>> customization.
>>
>> Plus, my drive becomes busy and launching applications takes time.
>>
>> I know there are more than 300 different linux distros out there, I just
>> need to get one.
>>
>> My project needs simple basic structure of linux kernel.
>>
>> It doesn't require GNOME or KDE.
>>
>> But, as I am a newbie, I can't work on command line linux.
>>
>> So, please advice.
>>
>>     
> Ubuntu would, like Fedora, be running one of the big desktop managers.  KDE 
> and Gnome are too heavy for your small amount of RAM.  If you install 
> something small like Puppy you will not have to work from the command line.  
> You may find some things easier than you thought from the command-line, but 
> you will not be forced to use it.
>
> Live CDs are good for getting a look at possibilities, but I would never 
> choose to work from one.
>
> Anne
>
>   




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