[ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

[Russell Green]

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