[LAU] Lightweight Distro

[Viktor Mastoridis]

Dear Julien, Gabriel, 2+, Jeremiah, Jaromir, David, Bernie,

Thank you so much for your responses. It's really helpful.

I will try your suggestions ASAP.

Viktor


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:05 AM, bernie arai <bernie.arai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
> <gabriel at teuton.org> wrote:
> >
> > In my experience, most main-stream distros can be made relatively
> > lightweight by:
> >
> >  * Choosing a different Desktop environment.  Gnome and KDE
> >    are nicely fully-featured... but have a lot of extra
> >    fluff running in the background.  Switch to something
> >    like Fluxbox, IceWM, FVWM, or (if you're really hard-core)
> >    blackbox.
> >
> >  * Disable and uninstall extra stuff that you don't need.
> >    If you don't need a mail server, NFS, Samba, CUPS, Apache,
> >    HAL, dbus, etc. -- Disable or uninstall them.  If you only
> >    need them occasionally, enable them only when you need them.
> >
>
> i've always been curious about which programs/services i can get rid
> of, but i've been too chicken to experiment first hand, not wanting to
> break a working system.  can you point to some good resources to
> determine which stuff is expendable for a music-oriented system?
> FWIW, i've been running xubuntu, like someone else has already
> suggested, works great.
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