[GRLUG] Lubuntu Breathes New Life into Your Netbook

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:10:53PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> <br><br><div>I know many on the list have NetBooks, has anybody loaded Lubuntu yet?</div><div><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011100800641OSUB">http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011100800641OSUB</a><div>

My wife has a netbook running Debian Squeeze with GNOME.  It is much,
much faster than Ubuntu with GNOME.  While Lubuntu may be faster than
Ubuntu, her current setup is quite acceptable (though video playback is
*turrible*.

> <br></div><div>Good?</div><div>BAD?</div><div><div> </div>Casey </div></div></grlug at grlug.org></casey at grlug.org></blockquote><casey at grlug.org><grlug at grlug.org><div><casey at grlug.org><grlug at grlug.org><br></grlug at grlug.org></casey at grlug.org></div><div><casey at grlug.org><grlug at grlug.org><br></grlug at grlug.org></casey at grlug.org></div>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.</grlug at grlug.org></casey at grlug.org><div><casey at grlug.org><grlug at grlug.org><br></grlug at grlug.org></casey at grlug.org></div><div><casey at grlug.org><grlug at grlug.org>- Kyle</grlug at grlug.org></casey at grlug.org></div><br />-- 

What kind of phone do you have that runs Debian?
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