Re: [tlug] Ubuntu on just 256 MB?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 01:44:55PM +0200, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Jean-Christian Imbeault
> <jc.imbeault@example.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Or does someone recommend a distro other than Ubuntu for such a low
> > spec netbook?
> 
> Xubuntu.
> You want to have some lightweitght window manager like XFce. I guess
> that this is one of the better options (it's quite easy to use, setup
> is fast and doesn't need lots of ressources). And at last: search for
> software that aren't ressource hogs depending on the needs of the
> user. Why use Thunderbird when you can use Sylpheed for example. And
> autostart only stuff you really need.

Puppy Linux is made for such things, I believe.  There's also
#!Crunchbang, built off Ubuntu with the OpenBox window manager.
(There's also now an ArchBang, which would probably be even better.)

As Linux tries more and more to be like Windows, (yeah, I'm a troll,
what can I say, but sheesh--look at the changes in Ubuntu and
Fedora--gotta love Fedora's packagekit allowing any user to update any
installed signed package without any authentication--ok, they've
surpassed Windows, no more of those pesky passwords), at any rate,
ironically, some of the newer desktop oriented distributions probably
require more resources than XP.  

I would say that one of the *box desktops, rather than XFCE, might even
be a better choice--I think there's even a Mint with fluxbox.  This is
subjective though, haven't used XFCE in awhile.  


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