[plug] Fedora Core 3 update

[Daniel Pearson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Chester" <gavinchester1 at hotmail.com>
To: "plug" <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Fedora Core 3 update


> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:05 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> Daniel Pearson wrote:
>>
> -snip-
>
>> > Its now just a matter of deciding whether or not I'll put X on it..
>> > its a P3 600, with 320mb ram IIRC..
>>
>>
>> Should be fine to run even a full desktop environment. I'd personally be
>> inclined to drop XFCE4 on it though and save some  RAM for other things
>> that way.
>
> Very do-able, if you're wanting reassurance ;-)  I run FC3 on a PII 450
> Xeon as my a dual-purpose workstation / K12LTSP server, albeit with 1Gb
> of RAM.  I even used KDE 3.1 for a short time (out of habit), but
> happily converted to Xfce4 because things would bog down a bit after
> long uptimes. That drag doesn't happen with Xfce4, so I'm sold on it.
>
> Regards, Gavin.
>

Very nice, I like the sound of that :-)

Is it something that can be chosen during install, or will I need to just 
select no WM, and then manually install it (using YUM or some such thing)

Cheers
Daniel