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On 26 May 2010 19:01:05 +0100 sanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > For what it's worth, when my aged 2nd hand Dell something-or-other > blew up, I dug an even more aged Dell Dimension 2350 (Celeron 2GHz) > out of the attic and the only distro I could get to run sensibly on > it was (is) PCLinuxOS LXDE. Ubuntu and Mandriva seized so frequently > they were unusable. With PCLinuxOS LXDE my sound card is a bit > erratic and the file manager PCMan has a known bug but the support > guys rally round in no time at all to help and advise. I was running > PCLinuxOS with KDE happily on the defunct machine and I'll stick with > them in future. > > Simon Sanders Top posted *and* in HTML? :p I don't really understand people's obsessions with specific distros. Was it *really* Ubuntu that was seizing, or was it a specific component of the default Ubuntu collection of software? You could always have tried installing a command-line only Ubuntu and added only the packages you want. You want XFCE? Install the XFCE packages. Gnome? Grab the Gnome packages instead. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html