[olug] Laptop

[Sean J. Edwards]

IceWM is small, fast, and themeable.  Use it with Rox-Filer and you have
a very light weight multi-media GUI.

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 08:20 -0500, Daniel Linder wrote:

> I believe you could use the base Ubuntu CD to install as either the full
> Ubuntu desktop, or as a simple server install ("Server" shouldn't bring
> across as much Gnome stuff if you plan to stick with XFce).
> 
> After the install finished, you could perform an "apt-get install
> xubuntu-desktop" -- see
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2398305.
> 
> Or you could download the Xubuntu ISO image and burn your own CD to
> install from: http://www.xubuntu.com .
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Tue, October 10, 2006 00:15, Kelly Williams wrote:
> > I have ubuntu cds would that have XFce.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> > Daniel Linder
> > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:37 PM
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group
> > Cc: olug at olug.org
> > Subject: Re: [olug] Laptop
> >
> >
> > On Tue, October 10, 2006 00:08, Kelly Williams wrote:
> >> I have a Gateway Solo 5150 P2 300, 96mb ram, 20 gig hd. I have been
> >> wanting
> >> to put linux on this laptop what would be the best. I have tried
> >> slackware
> >> 8
> >> and it ran good but I need the sound to work and the NIC. Any ideas...
> >
> > Not to start a distro-war, but you might want to check out Xubuntu.  It's
> > a distribution of Ubuntu, but with the lighter XFce window manager (less
> > RAM requirents).
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
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