Its great, but its not what Id call lightweight, still good when you want something a bit nippier than Ubuntu or Kubuntu, but If I'm using an old box, I'd prefer Arch with Fluxbox or XFCE (or maybe even KDEmod)
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Russell Green < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:21 +0100, John Levin wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any > >> of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? > >> > >> John > >> > > > > I have it on my laptop on which I use for web design. I was very > impressed with it too, although I think it is a bit odd that they use > firefox as the default web browser as I found it very slow and memory > intensive. It is pretty amazing how fast it runs (loads up in about 1 > minute) on my Pentium II which struggles to run Windows NT. > > This is the kind of thing we should be trying to tell people about - who > > knows what people have in their attic dismissed as unusable. Even if you > > do have to have a book with you when using it for when it's sorting > > itself out (and at least it does sort itself out) it saved at least two > > of my laptops from the skip. > > > > Craig > > > > > > > > I used it on an old pc I had before installing puppy.Its ok, but wasnt > really light enough for the pc specs. > > Russell > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- Mr JE Grabham
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