On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:26:31PM -0600, Alberto Treviño wrote: > > I like the idea of DansGuardian and TinyProxy. I'm not so sure about > Fedora. Although I haven't used Fedora, I have used Red Hat and > CentOS. I doubt Fedora is any better. In short, it is bloated and > complicated. It takes over 1 minute to boot on adequate hardware. Put > that on an old machine with a CD you are talking 2-3 minutes to boot if > you are lucky. If you have a memory-hungry system (less than 64 MB of > RAM) it will take even longer.
Have you tried installing Fedora without X Windows? With kickstart, you can get a very non-bloated Fedora install. I'm sure this is possible with Ubuntu, too. I think the idea we had in mind was to install the minimal number of packages, which would not include X11. If this still turns out to be too many packages, then we would definitely need to reconsider which distro to use. Even if we ended up needing to use a different distro, I think Fedora would still be the best place to start because of how quickly we could get a kickstart script and livecd ready. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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