--- In [email protected], "Don" <oohdal...@...> wrote: > > I'm a little curious about the XFCE Desktop. I tried Xubuntu 8.04 for > just a little while and didn't see what the deal was - didn't notice > any performance improvement over regular Ubuntu 8.04 on my rather old > PC (P3-500MHz-512MB RAM). Is it really supposed to provide > significant improvement? > Thanks, > Don > Blame *buntu for being resource-heavy in general, because regardless of desktop environment, it still has the same underlying design.
I've seen the speed differences for myself between XFCE and both Gnome and K on a machine similar to yours (P3/800MHz). The key here is getting away from *buntu if you want speed and responsiveness from older hardware. My current favorite easy-to-use XFCE-based distro is Zenwalk (dot org), but other XFCE-based distros I've also tried include Vector Linux, SAM Linux, Absolute Linux, and Puppy Linux. Strangely enough, these distros always seem to squeeze better video resolution from the (equally old) built-in video card "out of the box", whereas other, fancier, distros usually have to be tweaked to even get up to 1024x768! On said P3 of mine, in addition to the distros I've named previously, I've test-installed Fedora 7 & 8, PCLinuxOS, MEPIS 6.5 (7.0 doesn't like the VIA Samuel CPU, kernel panics), Linux Mint (*buntu-oid) "Cassandra" & "Elissa" versions, Kanotix, Gentoo (XFCE-based but not recommended for newbies), and probably a few others I'm forgetting...so I've done some serious comparisons, here...it really will make a difference! ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
