[Gloucs] Giveaway: USB mini keyboard, PS/2 mouse, gamepad, speakers

[Sean Keeney]

Yeah, we use that method at work for kiosk applications - ubuntu server +
lamp + the desktop meta package. That said, the default desktop
(ubuntu-desktop) is a lot fatter than xubuntu-desktop, which only includes
xfce desktop and gtk based applications. I definitely recommend the latter,
which with Beryl makes for a fantastic gui on minimal hardware.

On 01/03/07, Andrew Oakley <aoakley at messagelabs.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:59:15PM -0000, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> > > Free to good/bad/indifferent home:
> > > 2) USB Mini Keyboard.
> > > 3) Microsoft PS/2 Wheel Mouse
> > I'll take this if you're OK also the wheel mouse.
>
> They're yours. I'll email you off-list to get an address.
>
> > Bring me a machine of yours to install Debian on.
>
> Ah, well I've done that myself, sort of. I'm afraid I went with Ubuntu
> (hey, at least it is Debian based) but I did follow your rather smart
> idea and installed only the base Server distro, then installed the
> minimal GUI from there. Thanks *very* much for this tip, it saved me a
> heck of a lot of bloat. Despite the machine only having 392MB, it is
> running all the server stuff (Samba etc) plus Gnome and Firefox without
> needed to dip in to swap *ever* - and usually having 50MB+ free RAM.
>
> I'll make a separate post about this, as it was quite an interesting
> exercise.
>
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