[Blackpool] Fwd: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

[Les Pounder]

Thought I would share this with you.

Looks good I think I might try it on my netbook.

Les
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From: "Jim Price" <d1version at hotmail.com>
Date: 10 Feb 2011 19:19
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu
To: <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>

On 10/02/11 15:04, gazz wrote:

> By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've
> finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook
> sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter
> and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman.
>

I would suggest a look at Bodhi linux. It is Ubuntu based, and comes on a
380MB CD image. It has Enlightenment E17 as a desktop/window manager, and
comes with very little else other than Firefox 4 beta10 and synaptic. What I
like about it is I don't have to remove anything to make a small
installation, just add what I think will fit. I add about 150MB of packages
for an installation which fits on a 4GB drive, including Thunderbird, VLC,
gedit, mythTV-frontend, Gnumeric, Abiword, and some system utilities like
ssh, gvfs (for "connect to server" in Nautilus) and avahi (for local name
resolution). The end result is about 2GB, which still leaves room for
upgrades and some swap on a 4GB drive.

Enlightenment is modular, so anything you don't want or need you can just
unload, and the really unusual feature is that if it crashes, it doesn't
take all you apps down with it, so you can restart it and still see all your
apps running unharmed. It hasn't crashed on me yet though, so I haven't
tested that out.

http://www.bodhilinux.com

-- 
JimP



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