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   From: "Mike Easter"    
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   Subject: Re: Old Laptop   
   Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:30:59 -0800   
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   0EO[Uhc8QPWg3AEYULWEj9T@JbUUc8GQReVFU>\:87hme Mike Easter wrote:   
      
   >> The problem is that Mepis including lite is kde based, which isn't as   
   >> efficient as others.   
   >   
   > I didn't think about that since I usually go with IceWM or Fluxbox on   
   > older machines. Good point.   
      
   I think an important angle is the one about Win98 people with old   
   machines.  They need to go somewhere, and it shouldn't be XP or anything   
   else Win.   
      
   But, if the linux distros which are GUI are too much more hardware   
   demanding, that's a problem.  And if the only linux distros which are no   
   more demanding than W98 are commandline, that isn't going to appeal to   
   the Win98 user, who doesn't do commandlines.   
      
   There is a pretty narrow pathway to try to configure things with a gui   
   instead of a commandline and not eat up too many resources.   
      
   To use fluxubuntu as a leanmean example, it is designed to be   
   commandline driven.   
      
   I don't know exactly how rox is supposed to work and I haven't seen it,   
   so I don't know if it could overcome the commandline problem with the   
   information I'm seeing in the fluxubuntu forum called 'how to rox like   
   an expert' -- but it sounds menu driven, once configured.   
      
   The discussion in the debian forums is more appealing to me than the one   
   in the fluxubuntu   
   http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7345&sid=1951ea962cdd2a   
   f852c8ff87742519b     
   - Rox is a light weight GUI/file manager. It serves (for me) as a   
   replacement to Nautilus or Konqueror. It can serve as an entire Desktop   
   window manager (with customizable backdrop) or along side any other   
   window manger (ie to runs within GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment,   
   Fluxbox, ...). Actually, I no longer run KDE/XFCE/Gnome as window   
   managers due to "bloat" and degradation of performance.   
      
      
   --    
   Mike Easter   
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