On 6/17/06, Rick Funderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 16, 2006, at 19:56 , Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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> Just out from the Ubuntu project is Ubuntu Lite
> < http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2233&hit=1 >
Not much info on that link, but luckily WikiPedia has more.
Well, that was all I had when I started. WikiPedia points you to the
real Ubuntu-Lite site
< http://www.ubuntulite.org/ > where you can eventually learn more.
It looks like it is just Ubuntu that uses IceWm by default and
packages mostly GTK programs.
It isn't clear how this is different from XUbuntu, which has a
similar goal (but uses XFCE instead of IceWM).
I think that it is a little bit silly to have all of these Ubuntu
derivatives (that are basically a Ubuntu package list) be treated as
seperate distros. Ubuntu should host these package lists and make
them available during the installer.
I agree. But I can now tell a few things I have learned abut U-Lite
by installing it in an instance of the Qemu emulator. The CD
distribution is pretty small, 215MB, and takes only 10 minutes to
install on my peculiarly slow emulated computer. It expands to about
600MB on an ext3 file system (one root partition) plus 200MB swap. I
found no user-selectable options during the installation.
Initial impressions: the system comes up set to Australia/Sydney
time, which is abbreviated EST, since they are having winter there
now. This is pretty confusing. I would rather have distributions
that come from odd places default to UTC, which at least is the same
everywhere.
It's not easy figuring out how to get root privileges. Afterthought
says "boot single-user". I stumbled into one way when the X display
failed to come up, and I exited from the "me" login with a ^D. Found
a # prompt staring at me. So then I could go through the tribulations
of configuing X. Particularly difficult because the "easy" x
configurator requires a working X display, but this is not unique to
Ubuntu.
The detection of video hardware is not nearly as good as Knoppix, it
took me a couple of hours on and off to finally get a 1024x768 screen
display. It's hard to work with an X system that has configured
itself to 320x200. Networking seems to be OK.
So I can't immediately recommend it to the intended "granny users".
carl
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