My "minimal desktop" is OpenBox with fbpanel and lightdm. I'm guessing there are others; openSUSE has a minimal desktop using a stripped IceWM. I've lived comfortably with WindowMaker and even twm. The key to minimizing a desktop IMHO is getting a lighter browser. It's really hard to use a machine without a browser these days, and both Firefox and Chromium are humongous. They've got great JavaScript engines but who needs all that other stuff? On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 07:49:23PM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote: >> I would define minimal as the absolute minimal set of packages which >> allows the shell to load. This resulting setup is not meant to be >> usable without the user installing additional packages he or she >> wishes. So such groups would not be meant for "normal" users >> (whatever that means), but for developers and power-users which want >> to build up their setup from the bottom up. > > How about a lightweight desktop environment (it would just come with > twm/fvwm or similar plus a terminal - I'm sure this exists already)? > Does it need to be a minimal GNOME or KDE? > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench http://j.mp/CompJournBench/ Get out of the building - and don't come back till you have the order! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
