Why does the Debian distribution need so many applications? It
doesn't, it is nice to have them available though.
It may depend upon one perception of sluggish. I find Fedora's Gnome
desktop to be sluggish on an ATHLON 2000 XP. I tried Ubuntu with XFCE
and while the desktop loaded fine common applications like Mozilla and
Seamonkey were unbearbly slow on a 500Mhz with 200Mb of ram. As
mentioned, RAM can be a constraint so we are trying to use less. As
mentioned, it would be nice to have a 1 iso version for use on older
hardware.
I want to, we have that freedom, correct?
My wife is happily running Debian (sarge) and GNOME on a laptop with a
Pentium II processor (and 192 MB RAM). Why do you think a custom Debian
distribution is necessary for this class of system? (Perhaps RAM is
more of a constraint than processor speed?) Have the desktop
environments become more demanding between sarge and etch? I thought
that GNOME had recently seen improvements in performance and memory
requirements, though this might have happened after version 2.14.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
