[Nottingham] Lightweight GNU Linux Suggestions

[Rory Holland]

Sorry about my signature, it's appended by my phone so I don't appear rude.

Perhaps I should put a dash inbetween.

On 10 April 2012 19:47, Dave Luff <daveluff at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> **
> 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:
>
>> 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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