On Dec 11, 2007 1:17 PM, Don Wood <<a href="mailto:dond@standalelumber.com">dond@standalelumber.com</a>> wrote:<br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c"><br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>I agree with the author about the adoption of desktop Linux is going to<br>probably begin with low-end pcs. Or as we discussed in the last lug<br>meeting that companies that are being forced by the economy to look at
<br>their current practices and find lower cost substitutes. His<br>generalization of Internet access is superfluous to the topic imho.<br><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div></blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br>Speaking of low-end PCs, I have been an Ubuntu user since Warty, and I have noticed that it gets a little more bloated with each new version. Gutsy is very pretty, but I am swapping a lot more often than I used to on the same hardware (Thinkpad T20 with 512 and Thinkpad T30 with 512MB). I have tried a few of the ultra-stripped down distros (DSL and Puppy), but they tend to be ugly and lack a lot of functionality I have come to expect such as fully-functional Firefox/Flash/Java. I have also tried Xubuntu, but you lose a lot of the Gnome polish that makes Ubuntu so user-friendly. Are there any polished distros that target computers with 1-2GHz procs and 512MB of RAM? Computers - especially laptops - with those specs are very cheap these days and it would be nice to have something pretty and functional to install on them.
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