On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:33:09 +0200
J G Miller wrote:

>Although it may be heretical to suggest such a thing in this
>particular newsgroup, what you could do to avoid this is to install
>Debian on this particular machine.
>
>The reason for this is because in a Debian installation one can first
>install a minimal working system (without an X11 windowing system),
>then once that is up and running, then install all the extras,
>according to your choice, be it icewm, or fluxbox, or other low weight
>window managers, and then any other extras you so desire.
>

You *can* do the same thing with openSUSE. A non-X Window system is the
first install I do with any new version of openSUSE, to verify all the
base components are compatible (and it is very fast, of course!). Then,
I either re-install with X and one or more desktop/window managers or
add them bit by bit via YaST.


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