7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
9:01 a.m.
Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
As far a bloat is concerned, just blast KDE/Qt,
Gnome/GTK out and just
use plain X, twm, xterm, Firefox. That's it. If even that is still too
"bloaty", do without X, go console full console mode and stick to
That's all well and good until you DESELECT X during installation and yet it
ends up getting installed anyway.
Some distros are simply bloated, particularly any Redhat distro (or derivative)
in the last 5 years. I've stopped installing Redhat or Fedora for that reason.
My next distro will either be LFS or Gentoo so that I have control over the
bloat -- if it's bloated, at least it will be my fault!
p.s. I typically go around using console mode for at
least a couple of
hours everyday. Console mode with framebuffer at 1024x768 is great!!
:-)
Textmode + screen package is better :-)
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