very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

Wed Apr 9 07:03:29 UTC 2008

Hi.

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:03:13 +0200, Karel Zak wrote:

>  I have a Fedora 7 on ThinkPad E600 with 190Mb of RAM and it's useful
>  for fluxbox+mutt+vim. For installation you have to use a kickstart
>  with "%packages --nobase".

Just another data point:

F8 on an iBook (500MHz PPC, 384MB): I consider the default Gnome desktop
to be unusable on this system, swichting to xfce makes it bearable to use
for mail/websurfing.