Xubuntu in the News

[jmak]

On 4/25/07, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 25/04/07, jmak <jozmak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/25/07, john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Haven't seen much coverage of Xubuntu 7.04, save for this:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/04/wrestling_with_xubuntu.html
> > >
> > > "Wrestling with Xubuntu Feisty"
> > >
> > > "I spent the day upgrading my new Xubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) installation to
> > > Xubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), and since Xubuntu is derived from Ubuntu, far and
> > > away the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop, I expected --
> > > and still expect -- a lot more from it."
> > >
> > > Main beef was with setting up printing, which the author has promised to
> > > recount in full another day.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > john
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > The guy claims that booting up the Gimp takes 1 minute on his computer
> > with 1gig processor. This is ridiculous. My computer has 900mgh
> > processor and 526 ram and the gimp boots up about 6 seconds.
>
> I've got half a gig of ram and it takes quite a long time (probably also
> about a minute) too. Not that it's unbearable (if I work with the GIMP, I
> work with it for a while) and it's by far the most feature-rich.
>

I find it weird that the your gimp boot up takes that long.

By the way, I am also writing an interface customization tutorial. It
will be up on the tuxmachine and the Debian news site, soon.

 Jmak
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