[wellylug] Installfest flyers

[Brent Wood]

--- jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 
> > Is 2-3GB very limited? I always get annoyed if my installation is more
> > than 2GB! In fact, my partition is only 2.8GB :-)
> > 
> 
> I just gave away a P100 with 96MB RAM and a 1.2GB HD which was
> (happily) running a lightweight graphical install, complete with word
> processor (Abiword/vim), browser (dillo/lynx) and e-mail client
> (sylpheed/mutt).  It fitted in < 300MBytes.  I have also recently put
> together a P400 with 96MB RAM and a slightly larger HD running KDE +
> Firefox + Thunderbird + OpenOffice.org and, although slow to start OOo
> the first time, it was perfectly acceptable.  HD use was 1GB or so.
> 
> So I'm surprised at the recommended specs.  Do the newbie distros
> provide any option to limit what gets installed?


Yes they do. But you are still typically having a fair bit of bloat there...
like Gnome or KDE centric, etc, and going through a list of of a 1000 or so
packages to omit what someone thinks you need is a pain.

I prefer installindg a distro of the hardware vintage. No, you won't get a
current setup, but the hardware won't support that anyway. Use a distro
designed to work on that hardware as a full install. Prob better for the user
as well.
They can't have any false hopes from trying the latest & greatest either :-)


Brent