Comments on: Distro-hopping notes

By: poss

poss — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:17:31 +0000

2 nights ago i did a clean command line install off an ubuntu intrepid alternate disc, then just installed Xorg and Lxde after. It was a slow process (or) but the results seemed pretty good (233Mhz MMX) I think also in the latest ubuntu lxde has its own display manager not gdm so thats worthy of a suss. Tonight i might try much the same but use a debian base instead.

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Mon, 10 May 2010 21:29:30 +0000

[...] Distro-hopping notes I had a lot of time available to myself over the past week, as you might have guessed by my relative proliferation of posts. Some of that time was spent distro-hopping, although I had plenty more things to write about than just the flavor of the day. [...]

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:44:36 +0000

I’m pretty sure. I could be wrong. I didn’t really modify anything, which now that I think about it makes the story seem far less plausible than it did when I posted it.

Then again, I browse Firefox with images off and often using Instapaper or Google Reader, so you can imagine how Firefox’s memory usage isn’t that high.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:31:40 +0000

Stay tuned. …

By: Luther Goh

Luther Goh — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:57:45 +0000

How about Lubuntu (http://lubuntu.net)?

By: spc

spc — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:52:52 +0000

@ Nobody Important
“I think it used about 30 MB of RAM on my monster laptop with Firefox running.”

You mean cold boot??
How did you do that, mate??
Slackware 13 ??
Default kernel??
With firefox 3.5 running?? Wow …
Got any tips??

@Duncan_Idaho
And don’t forget about Zenwalk – Imho -best Slackware derivative…
Vector is also nice…

By: Duncan_Idaho

Duncan_Idaho — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:14:49 +0000

As a Slackware enthusiast I’d like to recomend SalixOS to you.
Salix is a xfce-based slackware derivative, but it is 100% backwards compatible with Slackware. the installer offers you the options of a full desktop install with many applications, a basic install which is just the desktop environment and the web browser, and a core installation which is a minimal no-X installation.
I’ve been using it since last year and I love it.
If you like lightweight xfce-based distros you should give it a try
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:04:32 +0000

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/crunchbang-and-archbang/

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:27:54 +0000

Any plans to try the new debian based version of crunchbang?

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:19:56 +0000

If you want an experience try Plan 9.