[GRLUG] Lubuntu Breathes New Life into Your Netbook

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 17:00:03 EDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:47 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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?

Huh. I see what happened; Kyle's original email only included an HTML
part, not a plaintext part.

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