[Novalug] Linux Use Accelerating - Unbutu on top

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ed James wrote:

> Me too, but only because of momentum.  RH 6.something was the 
> first I used only because it was the only one I found at a 
> local book store. I never had a reason to change. However , had 
> I started this year, Ubuntu would have been a strong first 
> choice.  I have noticed that Fedora has become more and more 
> bloated (as least for the install), and I've actually had to 
> bump up RAM just to install current FC versions.  I believe 
> (may well be wrong) that Ubuntu will install on lesser-RAMed 
> machines.

 	F8 certainly seems (no stopwatch) to boot faster here 
than F7 or F6 did. I'm not sure whether it's running slower on my 
oldest machine (whose main use is to run Opera against a dozen or 
so weather tabs), or whether that's just because I'm trying out 
Opera 9.50 Beta on that machine.

 	From what I've skimmed on 
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general, it seems to make quite a 
difference what you install.

 	My practice, based entirely on subjective impressions of 
tedium level, is to run the customizer on a fresh install, *and* 
run pirut later -- when I get around to it. That way, a lot of 
stuff (games, telnet, chat, and lots more) never goes onto the 
machine in the first place.

 	Fwiw, pirut's a lot more thorough than the anaconda 
customizer; but going clear through it even once (and I do, first 
by category, and later down the list) takes me quite a while; 
otoh, I can do pirut in stages, while the anaconda customizer has 
to finish before you go on.

 	I'll be very glad of comments & hints from the more 
clued-in here!

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Beartooth Implacable, Historian of Tongues from Way Back
Double Retiree, Linux Duffer, Curmudgeon On Line