I mostly use cli programs (apart from web browsing, pdf readers and the ocassional gimp). My netbook has just 1G RAM, so I try to use the lightest programs wherever I can, and given the tools I've gotten used to, I don't even feel the need for more RAM (except when I'm forced to use Firefox). Here's my list:
* Desktop environment: spectrwm - a tiling window manager (nothing else) * terminal emulator: urxvt * ssh * pdf reader: zathura * web browser: luakit(mostly), Firefox(if luakit doesn't behave well) * chat: irssi, bitlbee * email: mutt * editor: vim * Document/slideshow creation: LaTeX, beamer :) * SCM: git, gitolite * Tor \m/
I also have an installation of NetBSD's pkgsrc package manager on my machine. Coexists happily with yum.
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:17:17AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 02.04.2013 21:47, schrieb Pete Travis:
The docs team has begun assembling release notes for Fedora 19, and I've been thinking over hardware requirements.
Historically, we have cited the CPU, storage, and especially memory requirements for the default installation - a basic GNOME desktop. I'd like to reexamine that practice, with input from the development community. Fedora is too versatile a product to document so narrowly.
A few considerations come immediately to mind, but please don't limit yourself to the examples: Modern composited desktops like GNOME and KDE need better graphics hardware than XFCE or MATE. Headless servers would benefit from better NICs or storage controllers, but not require them. Purpose driven virtual machines clearly need fewer resources than the machine that hosts them.
I'm considering system specs at this point, but establishing the roles deployed might aid in targeting more comprehensive documentation. Beyond a basic desktop, what use cases would you like to see us represent?
i have two uses-cases for Fedora
private:
- homerouter / firewall / VPN-gateway / WLAN-AP (hostapd)
- fileserver for all sorts of data
- music server (MPD)
- KDE desktop
- web-develoment (Eclipse)
- all sort of servers like for business in VMware Workstation
business:
- software development
- web-applications / web-services / cms-systems
- admin backends for different services like mail/web/ftp/sftp/EPP
- deployment-tools (shell/php-scripts)
- router / firewall / VPN-gateway for small offices
- http-server / load-balancer (httpd / apache trafficserver)
- ftp-server
- mailserver (dbmail, dovecot, postfix, mysql)
- database servers (for web-sites as well for admin-backends)
- fileserver (smb / netatalk)
- dns-servers (authoritative for hosting and internal resolvers
- dhcpd
- sftp-servers with nss-mysql in case of many virtual users
- voip / fax (asterisk, hylafax, iaxmodem)
- openvpn
in summary: any network-service for internal usage as well as for customer services based on self-written admin- and deployment tools on top of VMware vSphere and running all on Fedora since many years and any dist-upgrade online with YUM all the time
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