Chris Penn wrote: >why not just use Fluxbox on Hardy?
My problem is that my laptop is relly old... about 6 years. It has pentium III and 256 megs of ram. I am going to put another 256 in, which is its full capacity. With the added ram, and the lightweight WM, I'm hoping I can put together a system that will have much better performance. Right now my ubuntu is painfully slow, and I believe it is because of the Gnome DE.I'm not really sure, but I think that Hardy will still be using Gnome Desktop environment. I just put a new cd-rw/DVD player in it because the old one died. So I was thinking I would make 5 partitions. One for Ubuntu as a fallback if things go wrong, one to try out fluxbuntu, one to try out IceWM/w LXDE, one for swap (about 1.1gig) and one for data to share between all distros, that way I can try out some different distributions that are lightweight. (eg. DSM/ Chrunch Bang linux) or some other lightweight distro. On one test partitions I will try out different distros, on the other I will try to build my own minimal build. On both I will try a few different options to experiment and learn. I just learned that the developers have moved off the project so fluxbuntu is out. I will need to investigate other options. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: I know that fluxbuntu is stable 7.10 and testing 8.10 And, I know that ubuntu 7.04 is no longer supported. and, since 7.10 ubuntu is not LTS, does that mean that fluxbuntu 7.10 is not secure (as in unsupported) How can fluxbuntu 7.10 have security updates if ubuntu 7.10 doesn't? Is fluxbuntu 8.10 stable enough to be considered no longer beta? Thanks for your input Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. See how. _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGTX_WL_HM_express_032009#colortheme
