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   Subject: Re: Old Laptop   
   Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:51:19 -0500   
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   On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:30:59 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:   
      
   > Nobody wrote:   
   >> 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.   
      
   Rox/Fluxbox is the preconfigured default with Vector. It is lean and fast   
   but still has all the eyecandy like KDE. If I had the time to play around   
   with it, Rox would be on all of my machines. I just haven't had the time   
   to sit down and learn how to configure it to my tastes yet.   
      
      
   > 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=1951ea962cdd   
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   Thanks for the link. :)   
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