Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

[icelinux@icelinux.net]

 Why does the Debian distribution need so many applications? It  
doesn't, it is nice to have them available though.
 It may depend upon one perception of sluggish. I find Fedora's Gnome  
desktop to be sluggish on an ATHLON 2000 XP. I tried Ubuntu with XFCE  
and while the desktop loaded fine common applications like Mozilla and  
Seamonkey were unbearbly slow on a 500Mhz with 200Mb of ram. As  
mentioned, RAM can be a constraint so we are trying to use less. As  
mentioned, it would be nice to have a 1 iso version for use on older  
hardware.
 I want to, we have that freedom, correct?

> My wife is happily running Debian (sarge) and GNOME on a laptop with a
> Pentium II processor (and 192 MB RAM).  Why do you think a custom Debian
> distribution is necessary for this class of system?  (Perhaps RAM is
> more of a constraint than processor speed?)  Have the desktop
> environments become more demanding between sarge and etch?  I thought
> that GNOME had recently seen improvements in performance and memory
> requirements, though this might have happened after version 2.14.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.