F 12/11 Lightweight WM spin / remix for low spec machine ?

Spunge · #1 15th October 2010, 09:43 AM

HI folks.
Could anyone recommend a good working F12/11 remix / spin with a lightweight WM (preferably fluxbox lxde or xfce) which I can boot up from LiveCD and install. Do not want Gnome or KDE just something which would work on a low RAM ( 512 / 256) machine that I have lying free. Not too bothered about fancy eye candy and aesthetics just need a working machine with a recent Fedora release on it.

All the best
Spunge

Edit: Just found the LXDE F11 remix and am giving it a go.

Evil_Bert · #2 15th October 2010, 11:30 AM

There are more recent spins available, and I wouldn't think the resource usage would differ much between F11 and F13. For example: F13-LXDE is available via the spins page:

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/

Spunge · #3 15th October 2010, 12:40 PM

Thanks EB,
I'm in the process of installing F11-lxde but is there any advantage to be gained by using the f13 version ? Being lazy here but it just saves me downloading the newer version and reinstalling !

S

Evil_Bert · #4 15th October 2010, 01:03 PM

F11 is past end of life, so no more updates. F13 will be supported until one month past the release of F15, or roughly June 2011.

Spunge · #5 15th October 2010, 01:11 PM

Thanks EB.
I've got F11 version to install correctly on my machine and got it net connected. Good omens for the F13 whose d/l is in progress now. Will take your advice and install the latter.

UPDATE : Machine was an old Dell 667MHz 256 RAM. Got F11 installed but gave up with F13 after numerous attempts. This was probably due to the lack of RAM ? Successfully installed Fluxbox on the F11 through "yum."

bonedome · #6 23rd October 2010, 10:59 PM

Hello
I'm a big fan of fluxbox and use it most of the time, so wrote a guide here http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthr...how+to+fluxbox if it helps

Spunge · #7 24th October 2010, 07:42 PM

Thanks bonedome. I installed the F13 from the minimal boot CD (248Mb). It was the basic bare bones of the system but it was a breeze to install all the X rpms and then Fluxbox WM. All worked a treat except a minor keyboard layout problem which I've subsequently resolved.
Very useful guide - will keep it in the bookmarks.
Fluxbox is my wm of choice. I even use it on my most high spec of machines - it's very underrated.

bonedome · #8 24th October 2010, 08:11 PM

Quote:

I installed the F13 from the minimal boot CD (248Mb)

ooh where did you get that ? with only 40 Gb hard drive I need all the space I can find, having said that I'll wait till fedora 14 before updating

Spunge · #9 6th November 2010, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bonedome

ooh where did you get that ? with only 40 Gb hard drive I need all the space I can find, having said that I'll wait till fedora 14 before updating

Here is a link for the F14 minimal boot iso :

http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/downloa...386/os/images/

HTH.