New Debian Installation.

BEYAZITTOSUN · 02-15-2005, 05:07 AM

I have DEBIAN 3.0-r4 CD 's and want to install it on my Laptop (Graphical Device is ATI Radeon 9700). How much space approximaytely I will need (X-Window and Office included). And I dont know which window manager is good for Debian. Maybe you can think it is personel choice but just some advice. For example GNOME is good with FEDORA and KDE with SUSE. Which one will be the right choice for Debian. Thanks for suggestions...

sharkzf6 · 02-15-2005, 05:33 AM

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Originally posted by BEYAZITTOSUN
I have DEBIAN 3.0-r4 CD 's and want to install it on my Laptop (Graphical Device is ATI Radeon 9700). How much space approximaytely I will need (X-Window and Office included). And I dont know which window manager is good for Debian. Maybe you can think it is personel choice but just some advice. For example GNOME is good with FEDORA and KDE with SUSE. Which one will be the right choice for Debian. Thanks for suggestions...

Hello, and welcome to Debian. It takes around 1.8 GB of hard disk space for a typical Debian install. As for window managers, I like Gnome. It seems to fit better with Debian and is the default choice. Also, I like the simplicity of Gnome. KDE seems too frilly to me and does not look as good, at least on my system (P4/GeForce 6800/NEC LCD 1765 monitor). Good luck!

BEYAZITTOSUN · 02-15-2005, 05:44 AM

Thanks alot friend. Your answer is that what I was looking for. I will try Gnome with Debian and I will use approximately 3 GB disk space. Hope to See you on forums.

ch_music · 02-15-2005, 06:03 PM

Or you can use xfce (# apt-get install xfce4). It has a very nice but simplistic interface. And it loads very fast (around 2 seconds in my Athlon XP 2500+). You can check out www.xfce.org

Hmm, for disk usage, 1.8GB is bare minimum. If you have a lot of personal files, you might want to make it bigger. =)