Comments on: The XFCE shortlist yields promising fruit http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Fair but honest? Xubuntu 8.10 « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-38036 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:58:11 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-38036 [...] is the legal version for that machine), so I feel no compunction in installing it one more time. My long-ago line-in-the-sand of 1.4Ghz is still where I’d put Xubuntu, if I had to guess at a reasonable speed for using [...]

]]> By: Fleshing out XFCE in Ubuntu « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-37210 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:36:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-37210 [...] out XFCE in Ubuntu Published September 19, 2008 Linux , Ubuntu A long time ago I mentioned the list of suggested applications that appears on the XFCE wiki. As you might have noticed from [...]

]]> By: fstephens http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-36587 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:17:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-36587 I am running Xubuntu on a Thinkpad a21e 600Mhz (I know you are familiar with those…) and I find it acceptable. Mabye thats just because my older laptop is a 400Mhz Dell Inspiron :-) .
I did do some tweaks to try and improve it’s responsiveness, using your “Setup Hardy for Speed” howto.
Thanks.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-36413 Sat, 31 May 2008 06:18:30 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-36413 Interesting; thanks for the link. Sorry if I sound like a grump, but I’ll believe it when I see it. ;)

]]> By: johnraff http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-36412 Sat, 31 May 2008 05:36:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-36412 It might just be that Xubuntu is refinding some direction:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Specifications/Intrepid/StrategyDocument
I was happy to see some emphasis on things like lightness and support for older machines, even figures like 128MB RAM, 300~400MHz CPU, which just happen to match my box. :)

Look forward to Xubuntu 8.10, though I’ll probably be using openbox/pcmanfm/lxpanel by then…

]]> By: Breakage http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-36274 Tue, 13 May 2008 01:35:25 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-36274 Thanks for the link to xfce’s recommended apps. :)

]]> By: JPascal http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/the-xfce-shortlist-yields-promising-fruit/#comment-36227 Thu, 08 May 2008 05:58:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-36227 XFCE has become my favorite desktop manager. Remeber me posting about thanking for for your Fluxbuntu review? I find XFCE much easier to use than FluxBox or Openbox, menu-wise.

I installed Ubuntu server on my Thinkpad 240X, then UbuntuLite, then XFCE. Fast little machine, as fast as it was when using Fluxbuntu, but I have the impression of using something more complete, more polished.

Now I am waiting for UbuntuLite for Ubuntu 8.04…

JP.

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