LXDE Spin
Summary
Fedora LXDE Spin - Fedora for systems with limited resources
Owner
- Name: Christoph Wickert
- Added: Kam Salisbury
- (feel free to add yourself)
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
- Last updated: 2009-01-04
- Percentage of completion: 50% (we have a working kickstart file here and are doing final tweaks)
Detailed Description
The Fedora LXDE spin is meant to be a lightweight but yet complete desktop based on LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. For more information about LXDE please visit the LXDE wiki page .
Benefit to Fedora
Current Fedora installs need a lot of disk space and resources. This is an attempt to make Fedora suitable for older and smaller machines.
Scope
Some package reviews, livecd
Test Plan
- get the kickstart file accepted by the spin SIG and add it to the KickstartPool
- Run basic spin testing
- Get the missing packages into Rawhide
- Release alpha and beta releases in sync with Fedora 11 via torrent for testing
- Test installs from livecd and usb, test livecdcreator
- Things to test on LXDE
- Work with Fedora QA to ensure that we have sufficient coverage
- Spin should be released with F-11
User Experience
A modern but lightweight desktop including a panel, desktop icons and a file manager together with a collection of lightweight applications for every day needs.
Screenshots: Features/LXDE#Screenshots Fedora, Upstream
Package Selection Proposal
In addition to the packages already provided by LXDE here is a proposal for packages for the livecd.
| Terminal Emulator | LXTerminal | X | roxterm, xterm | X |
| Web Browser | Midori | X | Kazehakase, Skipstone | X/- |
| Email Client | sylpheed | X | claws-mail | X |
| Instant Messaging | ayttm? | |||
| IRC | lostirc | X | xchat | X |
| Bittorrent | transmission | X | bittorrent-gui, linkage | X |
| Office | abiword, gnumeric | X | Siag Office | |
| Calendar | dayplanner | X | ||
| Address Book | gfa | X | ||
| Document Viewer | E-PDF | X | gv | X |
| Audio Player | quodlibet, lxmusic | X/- | audacious, eina | X/- |
| Movie Player | gxine | X | whaawmp | |
| CD Ripper | asunder | X | grip | X |
| Disc Burning | gnomebaker ? | X | graveman | orphaned |
| Image manipulation | mtpaint | X | [MyPaint] | X |
| Login Manager | SLiM | X | xdm | X |
| Calculator | galculator | X | xcalc | X |
| Clipboard Manager | parcellite | X | ||
| Wireless | NetworkManager-gnome | wicd, Wifi Radar |
Please add your suggestions at Talk:Features/LXDESpin#Proposed_applications
Dependencies
- Features/LXDE (done)
- SIGs/Spins/SpinSubmissionProcess
- Some new LXDE apps that should be in the final spin
Contingency Plan
- Don't ship the spin
Documentation
Most of the packages ship their own manpages and are well documented
Upstream documentation:
Release Notes
tbd
Comments and Discussion
- feel free to add a comment at Talk:Features/LXDESpin
References
- LXDE Forum - Lightweight applications list: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9
- Xfce Wiki - List of recommended applications: http://wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps
- tuxmachines.org - Top 5 Tiny Distros: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/26480
- DeviceGuru - Getting to know Ubuntu Lite: http://www.deviceguru.com/getting-to-know-ubuntu-lite/
- Debian SID lite: http://www.cap.gediam.de/apps-en.html