Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
> is xfce the right choice? i know it's "easy", but we should be
> sure it's correct. (i've been using it on my own xo, in a
> relatively unsophisticated way, but in the end that only makes it
> feel like an unsophisticated interface, so i may not be the best
> judge. :-)
I agree that the choice is yet to be made and isn't totally obvious.
I prefer using GNOME, but our current answer for "How much disk space
does it require to run Fedora 10 and GNOME and apps?" is "a 4GB SD card
and 256M of swap", so it seems hard to get there from here. Maybe we
can run GNOME and some tiny set of apps without blowing the NAND budget,
though..
- Chris.
Well, in the early days of the "Fedora on XO" project, I was working
with Jim on evaluating the possibility of reducing Fedora's image size
heavily to make it e.g. fit on the NAND or a SD card. To give you an
idea where we landed: The latest tries with XFCE resulted in an 300 MB
image. Using GNOME didn't change a lot, but if I remember correctly, it
was a few MBs bigger...
--Sebastian