Re: [gnome-love] Which distro?

[Todd Kulesza <todd dropline net>]

If you want the fastest, lightest (while remaining full featured), and 
in binary format, go with Slackware.  It comes with a stock GNOME 2.2 
package set, or you could try the refined (and more up to date) Dropline 
GNOME packages available freely at www.dropline.net/gnome.

Todd

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,