Older, smaller memory machine

Drewcore drewsph at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 03:10:44 UTC 2005


if you're looking for something that will run well on an older
machine, i'd look into fluxbox or iceWM as well... i've tried several
window managers on my old machines, and those too work pretty well.

On Apr 6, 2005 7:23 PM, demon666_nl <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I've got XFCE running with 771 mb of installed space on my /.
> 
> You can do a custom install of Ubuntu  with the latest release
> candidate (or final) of hoary (type custom and then enter at the
> bootprompt of the cd). And after you can issue these commands :
> 
> Code:
> --------------------
> 
>   $ sudo apt-get install gaim mozilla-firefox slocate xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfwm4 xserver-xorg
>   $ sudo apt-get update
>   $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>   $sudo init 1
>   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (if needed because xserver won't start)
> 
> --------------------
> 
> Let me know if you want more information.
> 
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