[Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Sun, 3/21/10, John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >Installed Mint in VirtualBox last year to test it.
> Didn't care much for it, but can't really remember exactly
> why. Will give it another look.
> 
> K-Mint 6 and 7 (based on Fall 2008, and Spring 2009,
> Kubuntu) both sucked. K-Mint 5 LTS was based on KDE3, worked
> great and I continued using it unti last Fall. They were
> making the transition to KDE4 and it took until the K-Mint
> 8, Fall 2009, based version of Kubuntu to get it right. KDE
> lost a lot of respect with the turmoil in changing from KDE3
> to KDE4. Scooter Phillipson announced his departure to GNOME
> a few months ago. I can't comment about GNOME Mint since
> I've never tried it. Mint 9 LTS with a repository of 30,000
> apps should be gorgeous since Mint 8 is stable and nice.
> There is a new version of Ubuntu (and Mint) coming out next
> month. It is for older hardware and is based on the LXDE
> desktop. It needs less than 256MB of RAM.

Thanks for the update.  I'll make a point of checking out the new LTS release as soon as it becomes available.  I'm in no hurry: After 4 months work, my Fedora 12 install is configured and running well with all the fixes up-to-date.

The LXDE version of Mint might be an option for my little 10-year-old Thinkpad 240X.  It only has 192MB of RAM, 500MHz Pentium that runs a 166MHz when on battery.  I've been looking for a "light", full-featured distro to replace my custom install of Debian Etch XFCE.  I've been evaluating Vector-Lite as a possible replacement as well, but it's a little sparse even for me.


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