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

[MJ Hewitt]

Hi Les -

I have installed Bodhi on the small Dell laptop that we used for the LTSP
test.
It looks nice.
I had to use safe mode install and several errors showed up during boot.
It is not that small, 300+ compared to puppy at100+ and Tinycore at 10!
It is not particularly fast either, again, not in the same league as puppy
or tinycore, probable more like crunchbang.
I like the fact that it has synaptic package manager, I installed Chromium
without a problem.
When I started a terminal, I could not type in it. Tried a root terminal,
could not type in that either.

It will be available for people to play with on Saturday,


Mike


On 10 February 2011 19:28, Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thought I would share this with you.
>
> Looks good I think I might try it on my netbook.
>
> Les
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
>
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