What is minimal Fedora install?

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Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> writes:

> 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?

I recommend either fvwm or i3.  You may also want to look into
fvwm-crystal if you want something pre-configured and don't want to
bother with it yourself.  Once you get the hang of it, fvwm is fun to
configure.  There's a mailing list for fvwm.

i3 is a tiling window manager and may take some getting used to if
you're used to floating WMs.  It's very well thought out and very
efficient.  You don't really need to configure it and you can keep the
configuration to a minimum.  They have a video that gives you an
impression and an irc channel for support.


For your application, i3 is probably better suited than fvwm: Fvwm is
extremely flexible and you can configure it to whatever you need and
like and it's really fun and you can play around with all your windows.
You can even configure it to sort-of tile your windows.  It can be
annyoing because you never really find an optimal placement for your
windows and it's getting in the way.

I3 manages your windows so you don't need to do that yourself.


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