[GRLUG] Lubuntu Breathes New Life into Your Netbook

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:00:03PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.

I wondered why mutt didn't strip out the html stuff: it doesn't.  :-)
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