Comments on: Remember this? http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fleshing out XFCE in Ubuntu « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-41140 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:17:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-41140 [...] of like the good old days, [...]

]]> By: Denis http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-39226 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:39:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-39226 Hi,
I’ve just installed xubuntu 9.04 and I am REALLY DISAPPOINTED with exactly this text sad: the Xubuntu is not light any more, not at all :`(

Regards

]]> By: NetBSD: An Alternative to Xubuntu and Ubuntu Lite for Machines With Low Specs : Pain and Glory of the IT World http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-38006 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:34:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-38006 [...] advocate the use of Xubuntu on resource-constrained desktop systems. But there has recently been talk about how the resource usage of Xubuntu is growing at a rapid pace. Along these lines, today I read an article that considers the use of Ubuntu Lite as an alternative [...]

]]> By: My brother has a good idea, and Sylpheed rocks « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-19373 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:51:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-19373 [...] developer even stepped forward and volunteered to help. But Thunderbird finally won out, which I thought was a mistake then (and I still do [...]

]]> By: The revolution beckons you « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-15330 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:31:03 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-15330 [...] August 11th, 2007 Ubuntu Forums , Ubuntu That snowballing Gnomification of Xubuntu that I mentioned eight months ago is starting to ruffle some feathers. Take a second to vote yea or nay on the addition of still more [...]

]]> By: Vincent http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-15310 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:02:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-15310 One of the main reasons for me to use Xubuntu is because it’s “snappy”. My hardware may not be very modern, but it’s capable to run Ubuntu. However, there is a little lag before opening the menu that I do not have with Xubuntu, so it definitely still is faster. However, it may no longer be the distro of choicer on extremely old hardware.

Why that ultra-cool “mouse running in the wheel” splash screen vanished, as an example?

I agree that it was very cool, but a splash screen on startup only made it slower. Login would be faster with no splash screen at all, that’s why there was decided against it.

]]> By: Xubuntu's crisis of identity « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-3059 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:16:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-3059 [...] as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, and quite some time ago, I think Xubuntu still believes itself to be a lightweight version of [...]

]]> By: Some user http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-801 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:05:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-801 I recently fetched our old 450MHz box from the basement, put some more RAM into it and sold it to a friend whose old Pentium II broke.

Well, now he has XP running on it, but before I tried Ubuntu, and Xubuntu (both 6.10). The memory was fine, but the CPU was too sloooooooow for Gnome. Xubuntu ran great, in my opinion. Ok, maybe Firefox and Thunderbird are a bit slow, but for users that really care there can always be Sylpheed and whatever faster browsers exist out there (I don’t know). I think even on old machines the extra 200MB (probably greatly exaggerated) disk space are available.

]]> By: cueprodigy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-407 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:42:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-407 The mention of Fluxbox got me to thinking I should mention grml.

I wouldn’t know where to start but in a nutshell the distro grml is by far the best unknown distro in Linux and it’s not even a secret. Fluxbox is one of the built-in window managers and the grml customized copy is awesome!

grml 0.9 is an absolute linux hacker’s delight. I download and play with literally dozens of distributions just for grins and have had more fun with grml than any other. Some of you might want to take a look at http://grml.org.

]]> By: Chris Lees http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-404 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:23:23 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/remember-this/#comment-404 I’m a distribution developer, working on the community preview version of Copland (PowerPC distribution, based on Xubuntu).

The first thing I noticed is: Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD was slow on my old iMac, but at least I could open applications. Xubuntu 6.10 Live CD uses more memory than Ubuntu 5.10, and so any attempt to even add an applet to the panel results in the computer swapping backward and forward between RAM and CD.

I’m too far ahead with Copland to change DEs now; I’m hoping to make the Ubuntu base lighter before release. But I’m seriously considering switching the distribution’s DE from XFCE to a custom Fluxbox.

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