[Wolves] I'm back..trying again.

[David Morgan]

On 14:33 Sun 03 Jul     , Sean Spencer wrote:
> Are the different core's (i.e. FC1,FC2,FC3,FC4) totally re-written
> then ? I assumed (probably incorrectly) that the different releases were
> just reincarnations of the previous versions, with maybe just tweaks
> here and there, and the odd security fix/patch ?
> 
> I based my thoughts on the fact that on reading the release notes to
> FC4, it states that the recommended specs are :
> 
> Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
> Recommended for graphical: 256MB
> 
> I have 512MB, with 1.8Ghz processor (albeit a Celeron...).
> 

I'd have thought 512MB wouldn't be too bad, you only had 256MB in there
to begin with though didn't you?

Each version of FC has newer versions of everything afaik, so in a sense
a lot of it has been re-written (new kernel, new gnome, new firefox
etc).

> > 
> > You might like to try xfce or something more lightweight, and maybe
> > even a different distro.
> > 
> 
> Any suggestions as to which distro would be good ?
> 
> I've previously had Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora (as now)... I've looked at
> the http://www.yoper.com site too - sounds interesting. Not sure if it
> would too advanced for me in my Linux knowledge.
> 

I hated yoper (it failed to set X up properly, but didn't want to let me
use it without having X working). I got the impression that if it had
set X up properly it didn't require much knowledge to set it up.

I do seem to remember mandrake 10 being a lot snappier than FC2, but KDE
isn't exactly lightweight (which is what mandrake uses by default, but
it doesn't make it difficult to use other things).

I'd have thought that anything aimed towards being n00b friendly is
likely to be slow because of all the services etc they they'll probably
turn on by default.

I've not used any distros other than Gentoo for a while, so I'm somewhat
out of the loop. Slackware or Debian would be the obvious choices I'd
have thought, but you might not like them.

I remember linux magazine having an article about how to make suse more
lightweight, if anyone can find that you might be able to apply some of
it to Fedora

-- 
djm