Re: EMC/RTLinux running under Debian.

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Ryan

Running KDE does impose a significant demand on a computer, and I would agree 
that RedHat is not the finest or purest of distros. That said, anaconda (the 
RH installer) is fairly easy to hack, and it can be customised to do a 
minimal install. Using an embedded GUI would speed up the overall performance.

The BDI was never intended as a fast light install - Rather a stepping stone 
for Windows users in to the murky world of Linux and EMC. Hence the choice of 
KDE as the default GUI.

If you are planning on using a 2.4 series kernel, might I suggest you look at 
using the rtai patch in stead of rtlinux - You get the opportunity of running 
the latest kernel.

Regards, Paul.


On Thursday 16 May 2002 04:47, Ryan Verner wrote:
> I'm not a fan of Redhat, and running KDE _really_ slows things down.  I'm
> planning on running a minimal system, XFree86-4, kernel 2.4.xx (if RTLinux
> patches exist; I haven't looked into this yet), and a lean and fast
> windowmanager like blackbox.  The installation would probably have things
> like auto-login by the time I'm finished configuring it, to make it nice
> and easy for people.  I'll be compiling EMC from CVS.