[Nottingham] Lightweight GNU Linux Suggestions

[Dave Luff]

Seconded.

Sent from Lubuntu, please excuse brevity.

Cheers - Dave

On 10/04/12 12:11, Rory Holland wrote:
>
> Lubuntu will exceed your expectations
>
> Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity.
>
> On Apr 10, 2012 12:11 PM, "Richard Smedley" <> wrote:
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>     On 07/04/12 19:01, Kurtis Brown wrote:
>
>         After certain annoying circumstances, some crack addict
>         robbing my house, I
>         am having to use a old Celeron laptop with 512mb ram. I have
>         tried Damn
>         Small Linux (too slow) Crunch Bang (just didn't like it).
>         What would be other peoples choice of lightweight distros? I
>         am used to
>         having Mint 10 as my usual operating system.
>
>
>     For the first three months of this year I was reliant on
>     an old Pentium IV with 512MB RAM. It's been running alpha
>     versions of Ubuntu 12.04, with the XMonad desktop - as long
>     as I didn't have too many browser tabs open, and avoided most
>     use of Flash it was fine.
>
>     (I upped it to 2GB last week, now it's flying ;)
>
>     It will run a GNOME desktop if you need it, but XMonad
>     really is the best window manager out there :-)
>
>      - Richard
>
>
>
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