Ubuntu "Lite" (Or dare I say.. 'Lubuntu'.. :)

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:04:34 -0400
volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/16/05, Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Perform a server install and install fluxbox or xfce instead of
> > > gnome. You should try another browser too, firefox isn't the
> > > lightest...
> > 
> > Fvwm95 is a pretty light Windows look-alike and IceWM can be made to
> > be so.  Both are apt-getable.
> 
> I agree with all these ideas as well (except I'd still use Firefox
> personally, I just like it). You didn't say how much horsepower your
> processors have, and my lowest RAM tests have been done with 128Mb,
> but I thought that a server-install with XFCE was just as responsive
> as Win98 on the same machine.
> 
> I'm not sure about how many ebay-er's ship to your location, but I've
> bought tons of RAM for  older systems there for next to nothing. That
> would probably make the biggest difference in performance if you can
> afford a little more.
> 
I ran Sid for a short time on a pentium 166 with 96 megs of RAM using
IceWM.  It was slow but workable.  Even KDE would run but like a sloth.
I couldn't compare that to Windows on the same machine, though, because
it never lived there.

Cybe R. Wizard
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