Lightweight netbook distros

[Reinier Millo Sánchez]

> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Art Edwards
> <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
> > On 01/04/2012 06:50 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> >> Are any of the netbook remixes still being updated?
> >>
> >> I've put the 12.04 alpha on my Acer Aspire One (512MB, 8GB SSD).
> >>
> >> After updating, it's 100% functional - but dog-slow. Unity works fine
> >> and fits the small (1024*600) screen nicely. But it takes 1-2min to
> >> boot, LibreOffice Writer takes 1-2 to start, the Soiftware Centre
> >> takes 2-3min and so on.
> >>
> >> All the remixes I knew of 2-3y ago seem to be dead and haven't updated
> >> since 10.04 if you're lucky: EasyPeasy (ex Ubuntu-EEE), Aurora (ex
> >> Eeebuntu), gOS (dead), Leeenux, etc.
> >>
> >> Is there anything current, as full Ubuntu is now too much for such an
> >> old, low-spec machine.
> >>
> >> It's a shame as Unity is the ideal desktop for it. I don't really want
> >> a "full" desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE, just a lightweight
> >> app-launcher.
> >>
> > I just put natty on an acer 1 for my son. It runs really well. ?Under
> > maverick, not so well. maverick didn't recognize wifi, but natty did. Im
> > not ruve nning unity so I don't know about that but gnome 2 works beautifully.
> >
> > Art Edwards
>
> Give Lubuntu a try.  I installed it on Virtualbox under 11.10 host and
> it works fine and is much more basic. but does all the necessaries.
>
Lubuntu it's fine. Now I'm using Linux Mint on my Pentium D with 512 Mb Ram, but I have used Fluxbox. Fluxbox is very ligthweight, but need some time to configure it.
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