--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been running Omega Linux 14 (respin > of F 14) on an EeePC > 701, with an 8GB camera card in the slot. I'm very pleased > with the OS > (Rahul, I owe you big time!); but the hardware just doesn't > fit my extra > large trifocal fingers and arthritic eyeballs. (I've > replaced it with a > Starling 10" from System76, running plain F14.) > > My wife, who has small hands and better > eyesight, naturally gets > first refusal of the EeePC; I think she'll like it even > more than I, and > keep it for years. (At our age, we spend a lot of time in > medical waiting > rooms, which are starting to have wifi, but still have > dismal > magazines.The EeePC is little more trouble than a book.) > > If she keeps it, I'll leave my own > userid on it, to make > troubleshooting more convenient; but my files are taking up > most of the > space available, and need to be devastated, wholesale. > > I'll start with text files and folders > full of pix to use as > desktop backgrounds; no sweat there. But what else? > > Any thoughts on what's safe to remove -- > such as *all* tarballs > and rpm's downloaded by me (rather than by yum or > PackageKit)? > > And most of all, are there any gotchas > to be leery of? (I do know > better than to delete my .addressbook or my .pinerc.) Here's what I did to reduce a Linux install about 1.5 GB. It was on a EeePC 900 with 4GB and 16GB SSDs. The OS (Eeebuntu 3.0 Standard, GNOME, 1GB RAM) was a stock install on the 4GB drive (/home and swap were on the 16GB one) and took 3.2GB leaving only 700MB. I was able to easily reduce the OS to 2.1GB including what additional apps I installed later by removing the following using Eeebuntu's package manager. So, it should work the same with Fedora. Printer drivers, except ones needed; Locales and language files, fonts, apps, servers (DNS, Apache, etc.), and utilities not needed. Man and Info pages. Other documentation. Backgrounds, themes, etc. not needed. I installed BusyBox and removed the corresponding Linux system commands that weren't needed. Plus, a few other small things for personal reasons. As in I never used this or that. So, why keep it. That's pretty much it. Just remove one thing or group of things at a time, checking if there will be dependency issues. Of course, back up, Back Up, BACK UP! B -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
