Can I use xfce Fedora?

[TylerW]

Title pretty much says it all. I booted a livecd of gnome just to see how fc14 was going to run on my server, and it was god-awful. Extremely slow, with the cpu usage being 30-40% on idle. I haven't actually installed the OS yet, so it may be better once I'm not running it live, but would it be OK to use the xfce version since it's a little more lightweight? The amahi installation instructions don't really specify.

[bigfoot65]

I would think it did not matter which interface version of Fedora 14 you use. The critical pieces I believe are in the distro itself, not so much the interface type. I have heard of users using KDE versus Gnome.

Give it a shot and report back.

[radioz]

Keep in mind that a live CD will run much more slowly than when the OS is installed on your hard drive.

It is not really fair to judge the 'speed' of an OS with the Live CD.

[TylerW]

Keep in mind that a live CD will run much more slowly than when the OS is installed on your hard drive.

It is not really fair to judge the 'speed' of an OS with the Live CD.

True, and I realize that its going to be slower from the CD, but it was reallllly slow. I installed the xfce version using a 10k rpm scsi drive. In case any other newbies are interested...


I didn't have the option to add the repository during installation, so I did that manually following this: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Self-install-existing
It didn't put any shortcuts on my desktop, so for the initial setup I just navigated to localhost:2000 myself.
The rest of the setup went fine, except that upon restarting my network manager would not autostart. Solved this following: http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2529 where he mentions adding the DEVICE=eth0 line

Now everything works just fine! I turned off dhcp and setup VPN, now I just need some more hard drives to add to my storage.