[GRLUG] Bodhi Linux

[Bob Kline]

Seems true.  I've had very good
luck with Lubuntu on a System 76
unit.

   -- Bob


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Dagny Scott <parsleyfirefly at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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