[GRLUG] Bodhi Linux

[Dagny Scott]

I'd say netbooks are the primary beneficiary of scaled-down systems.
Personally, I like openbox for that scenario.

Dagny

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyway care to provide a small word salad
> about what e17 is?
>
> On the subject, is anyone actually strapped
> for speed?  i.e., what is it you do that requires
> more speed than you have?  I suppose this
> would get in to how old the iron is one is
> running.  Today it wold take effort to get
> less than a dual core processor, and quad
> core is common and inexpensive enough.
>
>     -- Bob
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:15 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:54:56AM -0400, Topher wrote:
>> > >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:57:40AM -0400, Topher wrote:
>> > >>Anyone tried this?  Ubuntu based, E17 front end, really stripped
>> > >>down for speed.
>> > >
>> > >-1
>> > >
>> > >It's very unstable (at least in a VM).  e17 is not ready.  Still.
>>  After
>> > >a decade.  I used to follow its development closely (frequently
>> > >recompiling to stay current).  It's a crapshoot.  It's amazing what it
>> > >can do on low-end hardware (no, really; it's incredible) but it's not
>> > >stable.  Bodhi is a great way to try e17, but if you like stability you
>> > >will be disappointed.
>> >
>> > And since Debian threw e16 under the bus you can't even fix it by
>> > going to e16.  Bleh.  Because it WOULD be cool with e16.
>>
>> I was very surprised when Debian removed e16, since e17 is no where near
>> ready to replace it.  I'm sure it had to do with a dwindling userbase
>> and the lack of a maintainer.
>>
>> You can always compile from source.  :-)  But you know that.
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