[GRLUG] Lubuntu Breathes New Life into Your Netbook

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> From: Casey DuBois
> Sent: Oct 10, 2011 9:39 AM
> To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area."
> Subject: [GRLUG] Lubuntu Breathes New Life into Your Netbook
>
> I know many on the list have NetBooks, has anybody loaded Lubuntu yet?
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011100800641OSUB
> Good?
> BAD?
>
> Casey
>
> I tried LXDE on my phone (Debian) and found it to pull in too many GNOME
> dependencies and use up too many resources for it to be worth messing with.

I've also installed it on my Toshiba Satellite R15. It does pull in
GNOME dependencies, but those are held in place from the
ubuntu-desktop metapackage. I do find it runs a *lot* faster than
GNOME on the same machine.

On the Gentoo box, I've got "-gnome" as a global USE flag, so I'm not
pulling in the GNOME deps. Gtk, sure, but that's a different thing.

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