[frgeek-michiana] Re: Lightweight Ubuntu
- From: Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:36:30 -0400
I was just reading about this a couple months ago. It looks good, but I haven't
had a chance to try it yet either. I installed chromium on my Ubuntu 10.04
based LTSP test VM, and I liked it for the 5 minutes that I used it.
I use Google Chrome 90% of the time on my Windows laptop, and IE8 the other
10%. I haven't opened firefox in quite some time.
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> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:37:33 -0400
> From: mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Lightweight Ubuntu
>
> I know some of you are interested in a lighter distro.
>
> Lubuntu 10.04 < http://lubuntu.net/> is a lightweight variant of Ubuntu using
> LXDE < http://lxde.org/> lightweight desktop environment.
>
> P II or Celeron processor.
> Minimum memory required is 128 MB, 160MB recommended; Graphical installer and
> live-cd require 160 MB or more.
>
>
> It uses Openbox as it's window manager, Chromium as the web browser, Sylpheed
> for email, Abiword and Gnumeric for office apps, and Aqualung and mplayer for
> multimedia.
>
> There is a netbook boot option optimized for the smaller screens of netbooks.
>
> It also can use all of the Ubuntu packages including localization packages.
>
> I haven't tried it yet so ymmv.
>
> Mike
>
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