Fedora follies

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
> David A. Bandel wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Anyone have any recommendations for a mainstream RPM distro not FC?
>> Perhaps a different one will be a little more accomodating, especially
>> to those who don't have the computer equivalent of a SUV.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> David A. Bandel
>
> How about Mandriva?  I used that distro on a project I was on last year...
> Then there's always Suse.
>

Along the lines of Mandrake, lots of people locally swear by PCLinuxOS.

Of course, given the memory constraints you cited, I'm not sure you'll
find anything in the "mainstream" group that can be cut down
sufficiently.

Methinks a minimum Debian system plus a few extras would be a better
approach. I've heard that the business card iso provides a really
minimum base, and you can suppress gnome/kde to choose a really
lightweight desktop. Since you have lightyears of Debian experience,
you could do this and maintain it in your sleep.

-- 
Collins Richey
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