gazz <pmg...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've finally had
to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook sensibly with a 4GB
USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter and constantly cleaning up
apt like a madwoman. Xubuntu's too big as well. I tried Puppy but whilst it's a
really good little distro for non-techie's to do web/email/office, it's a bit
of a shag learning a slack-based distro so you can get it to do *anything* else
- and you end up having to compile everything onto it cos the package handler
isn't really functional yet - then the compiler breaks if you install it to HD!
DSL is grumpyl. I was contemplating slapping XFCE on Debian or something but
obviously that isn't going to work for the non-techie users. I'm really looking
for something with oob functinality for non-tech users that can revive the
clapped out PCs used by lots of smaller charities (besides something low-hassle
for the eeePC). Lubuntu does the job, your basic
web/email/office stuff oob, and I can get stuff I need like sshfs and nfs
clients etc working on the cli in 10 mins. Chromium gets on my nerves but I
thought I'd try Midori which seems OK. Pity the swiftfox/swiftweasel projects
seem a bit lacking in energy - need the functionality of FF but it just hogs
ridiculous amounts of HD :( Anyway, Lubuntu's the first 'lite' Ubuntu flavour
that really does the job oob yet is a grown-up OS which I could feel confident
giving to non-techie charity orgs too. Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
I might have another look at Lubuntu, I've been looking into a basic
lightweight distro for two P3 laptops for a local Surestart centre for the kids
to use things like Tuxpaint, GCompris, etc on and I too have found XFCE a bit
resource hungry, and I didn't fancy messing around with Debian.
Rob
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