Re: [Nolug] Starting a new distro war

Doesn't Fedora require much more memory and HD space? I have RH 7.3 on
a server and it takes more than 2gig. Seems like Fedora would be
bigger.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Tiedeman <jdtiede@sstar.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Starting a new distro war

>Dave Prentice wrote:
>
>>Hi y'all,
>> I just got a laptop (thanks Paul!) and want to have an xwindows
>>gui (I'm used to kde) with web browser, Open Office, powerpoint
>>viewer, and pdf viewer. Anything else is gravy. The laptop is a
166mhz
>>Pentium I and will have 96 meg RAM and 2 gig hard drive space. I'm
>>very used to Redhate, but willing to go with anything that will have
>>the above features. Considering the resource limitations, any
>>suggestions on which distro to install?
>>Thanks,
>>Dave Prentice
>>prentice@instruction.com
>>
>>
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>Since you're already used to RedHat, why not try Fedora? I've had
very
>little trouble with it so far, and most of the differences are
cosmetic
>only (splash screen colors, etc.).
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