What is minimal Fedora install?

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 21 20:05:18 UTC 2012


On 11/21/2012 02:08 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:51:33AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Servers below 3Gb, but workstations?  KDE is smaller than Gnome (but
>> then I would be using different desktops).
> Yeah. Going from my mostly-minimal cloud install to Gnome Desktop took me
> from 707MB to 3.2GB on disk. (And had to be done in two transactions because
> there wasn't enough room in my 4GB disk for yum to both download and install
> the package set.)
>
> However, XFCE from the same minimal base goes to only 2.2GB, leaving a
> little breathing room. Alternately, LXDE is only 1.9G total.
>
> You could also eschew a modern desktop environment and go more minimal, just
> installing a window manager plus applications you need.

In truth, the purpose of the ee701 is to view mp4 lectures.  I use VLC 
to view these.  I tried to use mplayer, but it needed the mp4 codec and 
the install failed.  So I would either have to add VLC to the mix, or 
figure out why the mplayer codec install failed.

So anyway, what window manager to you recommend?



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