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On 19/04/12 08:01, tom wrote:
On 19/04/12 07:49, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:On Apr 19, 2012 7:21 AM, "Jason Witcher" <jaydoubleyou@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jaydoubleyou@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > I'd say use one of the more lightweight WMs. I've got an Asus eee with similar specs running Fedora - it is a little slow so I'm looking to replace the OS with one that uses XFCE or LXDE when I get a chance. > Jason Why replace the whole OS just for the sake of a different WM? Just install the WM and make sure you select it at login time, after that it should be your default (login manager dependent). Grant.I've found that adding on a more lightweight WM to a heavyweight WM can keep some of the problems of the heavyweight one. Not tried it the other way round... Tom te tom te tom
I have had my samsung nc10 for coming up to 3 years now. I ran ubuntu 9.04 for much of this time. lol. Gnome 2.X was the gui which worked fine.
For the past 8 months (ish) I have run mint. I found that the default desktops and window managers were a bit slow. I installed LXDE and made it look more mint like (changed the desk top image and a few other things) and it works well. Fast enough for me.
Rob's, amongst others, suggestion sounds good though. Mint Debian - perhaps with xfce, lxde or enlightenment? (not that i have ever used enlightenment - but it is supposed to be light weight i believe).
I have always wondered how some of the ultra light weight distros would run. I have only tried vector linux and puppy previously. I have to say that neither worked very well "out of the box"; and given that I dont really have a clue (lol!) that was as far as I ever got.
http://www.bodhilinux.com/ http://www.slitaz.org/http://url.drogon.net/0y (puppy linux - did, and perhaps still does appear in the top 10 on distro watch)
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/resurrect-your-old-pc (mentions a few more light weight distros)
Debian also worked very well on some of the less powerful hardware we have in the house.
I hope that is of some use? Sorry if it does not read as well as it might. Just woke up and I am lacking 3 to 4 coffees! lol
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