[frgeek-michiana] Re: Lightweight Ubuntu
- From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 06:34:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I downloaded the iso over the weekend (~500 MB). I'll probably look it over
later this week. I haven't looked at chromium or LXDE before so I'm kind of
looking forward to checking it out.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: May 11, 2010 4:36 PM
>To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Lightweight Ubuntu
>
>
>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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