Installing on an old Eee PC 900

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/10/28 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> On 27 October 2012 13:51, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is the lightest/fastest Debian based Gnome distribution out there?
>
> Debian.
>
>> I want Gnome 3 but no Gnome shell.
>
> You can't, as others have said. The default shell for GNOME 3 is GNOME
> Shell. The 2-panel layout is only available in Fallback Mode, for 2D
> graphics users. You can't install it without GNOME Shell, AFAIK.
>
> If you want a classic 2-panel GNOME-style desktop, try Maté. If you
> want Ubuntu with Maté, try NotaLinux. Warning: it's old code, much of
> it superseded, with only a few developers. It might not be all that
> secure and its future is uncertain.
>
> If you want something lighter-weight with a 2-panel layout, try XFCE.
> It is the default desktop in Debian 6, I believe.
>
> Me, I would probably put Lubuntu on that spec of machine. It's what I
> run on my 2004 IBM Thinkpad X31 and I like it.

I have Lubuntu on it right now. It sucks badly in many aspects, I
don't really have time to go through all that right now, sorry.



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ