Re: [tlug] Lightweight desktops

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Concerning David Riggs' recent query on lightweight desktops, this 
piece of the Debian Weekly News may be of interest:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Debian Weekly News - June 6th, 2006
Resent-Date: Tue,  6 Jun 2006 14:07:17 -0500 (CDT)
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Date: Tue,  6 Jun 2006 21:04:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Martin Schulze <joey@example.com>
To: Debian News Channel <debian-news@example.com>

[snip]



Debian Light Desktop. André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira [31]started
working on a desktop meta package for desktop machines running old
hardware. He [32]received several improvements. Joey Hess would like
to [33]add this to [34]tasksel, so that the desktop task automatically
installs it if it detects a system that is not easily capable of
running KDE/GNOME.

 31. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00236.html
 32. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00334.html
 33. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00301.html
 34. http://packages.debian.org/tasksel



Regards,


Chuck


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