Comments on: Ubuntu 6.06.1 on 75Mhz Pentium, 64Mb, 1.5Gb and Openbox http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/ubuntu-6061-on-75mhz-pentium-64mb-15gb-and-openbox/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kmandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/ubuntu-6061-on-75mhz-pentium-64mb-15gb-and-openbox/#comment-49 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:38:11 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/ubuntu-6061-on-75mhz-pentium-64mb-15gb-and-openbox/#comment-49 Hi Steve. You’re right; Xubuntu is the lightest full Ubuntu distro you can get as a package. If you want to build up with something sparser, Openbox is an option.

Openbox is a very lightweight desktop environment. In a way it looks a lot like Fluxbox or Blackbox. It uses a lot less resources than Gnome, KDE or even XFCE, but requires a little more effort to set up. A good place to look at nice Openbox setups is on Boxwhore.org.

On a machine like that one, you’d probably see some real speed improvements. On the other hand, the time it takes to set it up — and it’s certainly not very noob-friendly — might not be worth it to you. Search the forums for Openbox and no doubt you’ll come up with some howtos for putting it together.

Cheers!

]]> By: Steve Farber http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/ubuntu-6061-on-75mhz-pentium-64mb-15gb-and-openbox/#comment-45 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:02:29 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/ubuntu-6061-on-75mhz-pentium-64mb-15gb-and-openbox/#comment-45 Please forgive me asking, but what is “Open Box” and why exactly do I want to take the time to look into it?

I was under the impression that Xubuntu was the lightweight version of Ubuntu for older hardware. I’m running Xubuntu on an old 600 Mhz Celeron w/256 MB RAM and it is OK, but no speed demon.

What’s the scoop?

Thanks,

Steve

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