Comments on: An unlikely hero: Xubuntu http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: livinlavidacli http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49236 Thu, 05 May 2011 02:50:30 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49236 I’ve tried all the buntus, even mint, the fancy schmancy offshoot, and still I remain with slackware, no X server installed.

]]> By: The ebb and flow « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49129 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:12:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49129 [...] K.Mandla’s blog of Linux experiences BlogAboutHowtosHardwareSoftwareProjects « An unlikely hero: Xubuntu [...]

]]> By: Cristhyano http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49124 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:22:51 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49124 I’m working on an article of a minimal instalattion of gentoo linux, the least dependencies possible to have a working xorg session with a light Tiling WM and console applications. But it’ll be in portuguese. Maybe i’ll translate to english someday.

]]> By: LM http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49122 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:12:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49122 I really liked reading the suggestions to use a minimum distribution and install what you need to get the customization you want. It’s sounds like a great idea, especially since I’m not finding any distributions that have what I want in them out of the box. Anyone have any suggestions on what to do if one of the things you don’t like about the distribution is the package management system? I’d try another distribution, but very few seem to work on my desktop machine with the hardware I have. The end user package management tools for the distribution are okay. It’s creating your own packages that work with those tools that I think is a mess. Was considering the possibility of building things by hand and using something like alien to convert to a compatible package format. Anyone have any better tips on how to do this? Thanks.

]]> By: Cristhyano http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49115 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:36:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49115 Gentoo linux for almost 5 years i think.

]]> By: Joe "lnxr0x" http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49102 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:12:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49102 Yes I’ve tried Lubuntu and I think it’s great .. it should replace Xubuntu as the “lightweight” buntu for sure !!

]]> By: Dennis Hodapp http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49101 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:00:23 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49101 You may find that, even though not officially supported, Lubuntu kicks the crap out of the other *Ubuntus. Why? Because it actually does what it says it does. It really does run quite lightweight and provides all the fun Ubuntu stuff we love. I’d try that out. Xubuntu is a failed attempt at making Ubuntu lightweight(ish).

]]> By: Joe "lnxr0x" http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49097 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:39:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49097 I gave up on Xubuntu quite some time ago. I like XFCE but Xubuntu has never made it feel as light as it is. My distro of choice for XFCE is definitely #!Crunchbang. Running now on an ancient IBM thinkpad PII 400 Mhz 256MB ram .. after a cold boot system using about 50-54MB of mem.. I’ll try Xubuntu when it can do that ;)

]]> By: quinadomundo http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49093 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:23:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49093 Gentoo linux for about 5 years now. But like people said, it’s something personal. You need to find your own.

]]> By: Audrius http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49090 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:31:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/an-unlikely-hero-xubuntu/#comment-49090 Personally, I don’t see much point of switching between various flavors of Ubuntu. For me a good distro is a nice package manager with huge package repositories. At the moment such distro is any *Ubuntu.
From there I just pick the most lightweight *Ubuntu – Xubuntu, after installation remove any unnecessary cruft and install my favorite WM – XMonad, file-manager – Krusader and so on.

I don’t believe that any tech-minded linux person would use a default configuration of any distro; that is what linux stands for – choice, if you don’t like something, you just remove it and install something else – which makes all the arguing about unity being bad just pathetic – don’t like it? Fine – just apt-get purge it and live happily ever after ;)

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