UBuntu on older machines ?

[Thomas Beckett]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:16:50 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > why not try xfce instead of a fully blown gnome. Its much faster on
> > older hardware and still uses gtk. should dowonders for speeding it
> > up!
> >
> > Tom
> 
> Well Ubuntu without gnome is not Ubuntu anymore ! ;o)
> And I love Gnome (but not it's sluggishness... :-/ )
> That said since it's for a file server or such, I don't mind trying
> lighter Desktop. What does xfce look like ? any Screen shot ?
> How do I install it ? Is it just a matter of downloading some packages
> from Synaptic ?  How many MB do I need to download (I have only a 64K
> internet access, so only marginally faster than dial-up ! :-/ )
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vince
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a quick loko at their website got this nice shot

 http://www.us.xfce.org/images/screenshots/default2.png

well - it looks even nicer than when i last used it ages ago, it looks
like its been updated to gtk2+ so will feel "gnomey" but will just run
faster.

As for downloading it - i have no idea how big it is - but as gnome is
already installed, pretty much all the dependancies will be taken car
of and should only be a small amout for teh actual xfce. Enable the
universe as i think it is in there and give it a go. It wil install
itself and when you next run gdm you can select xfce from the sessions
menu instead of gnome. I cant remember off teh top of my head how you
make it the default one. I think it is  the xsessions file in your
home directory, but thats probably wrong.

Tom