[Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Glen Hartzell <ghhartzell at yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm not sure of the "mint" version of the small footprint 'Buntu, but a
new version of Lubuntu is also in the works and that will feature
LXDE.  Another thing to consider; the light version of Crunch Bang
linux with LDXE installed as the WM. If you really want a tiny and fast
desktop, you might consider fluxbox or JWM. I think these both have
smaller RAM footprints than LDXE. I'm running Puppy Linux, (an older
more stable version than the betas) which uses JWM. This is perky on my
P-II / 256 meg (very old) laptop. Don't use flux or JWM for noobies,
LDXE will probably be a lot better for folks who are used to a Win32
style enviornment.

Crunch Bang.  Never heard of that one.  Will check it out.

Currently evaluating Puppy 4.3.1 in VirtualBox as a candidate to replace Debian Etch on the old Thinkpad.  Puppy, so far, has been the lightest, most full-featured, ready out-of-the-box, easy to use distro I've come across.

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