Re: [gnome-love] Which distro?

[Kim Schulz <kim schulz dk>]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:33:45 +0100 (BST)
news optimistic co uk wrote:
> Greetings to all fellow Gnome lovers!
> I'm a bit of a newbie here-abouts, and I've just discovered Gnome 2.2.
> I need a little help, however.
> Here is the situation:
>
> - I really like Gnome, especially Gnome 2.2
> - I presently can only use Linux on one machine, a 500Mhz AMD with
> 400MB RAM.- I have tried this machine running SuSe with KDE, it was
> pretty smooth.- I dislike both SUSE and KDE strongly - especially
> because you have to pay for it (I am a student), and my version did
> not come with any development tools.- I have also tried this machine
> with RedHat 9 + Gnome 2.2.- This seemed to be horribly un-responsive
> (especially compared with Windows/SuSe)- I thought that Debian might
> be a bit faster.- I tried Debian Woody, liked its net-install feature
> very much but found it only came with Gnome 1.4.- I tried Debian
> Sarge, but discovered that it was pretty impossible for someone like
> me to install. Doing a chroot install seemed to me like a bit of a
> headache.
>
> I am now looking for a distro which will run Gnome as efficiently as
> possible and be reasonably easy to install (i.e. no self-builds, no
> chroot etc.).
>
> Anyone have any bright ideas?
> Love to all Gnome lovers,


Mandrake is really nice and runs Gnome real smoothly. There is packages
out for the lates gnome if you run the development version "Cooker", and
if you want the stable version, then you get gnome 2.2

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