My husband's box is currently running PCLinuxOS 2009. A dying HDD necessitates a fresh istallation.
***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** He finds the PCLOS very slow to boot up after the Libranet that he had installed previously. This seems like a good opportunity to install something better and faster. I am thinking of Lenny. Stability is important, and there is no call for anything up-to-date - at least until his processor or motherboard dies. ;-) It is reasonably important, tho' not a deal breaker, that the visible layer should look and feel the same as his present one. What is under the hood will not bother him at all, because he will never raise said hood. The details of the desktop are unimportant, but it is important that there be icons over which I have control. He is used to being able to do one click on an icon to open the few things that he actually uses, i.e. four or so applications, a shortcut to a specific document, the lock/shutdown icon and a clock. Currently the document icon is on the desktop and the rest on the panel, which is at the bottom of the screen. It would be nice if these details were the same, tho' it is not essential. XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en route to getting bloated. Opinions, please. Because of Knoppix, I have had a good look at LXDE, but so far it does not appear to be very malleable, and support seems a bit thin on the ground. He currently has KDE, which was part of a fast boot process in Libranet, but is an obvious candidate to go if I am trying to speed things up. ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
