> > "Anyway, Lubuntu's the first 'lite' Ubuntu flavour that really does the > job oob yet is a grown-up OS which I could feel confident giving to > non-techie charity orgs too." >
Right on! Lubuntu hits the sweet spot that others have failed to find. Tim On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > I thought I'd forward this on, it's nice when people take the time to say > 'thanks' :) > > Regards, > > Phill. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: gazz <pmg...@gmx.co.uk> > Date: 10 February 2011 15:04 > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu > To: Talk UK Ubuntu <ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com> > > > By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've > finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook > sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter > and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman. > > Xubuntu's too big as well. I tried Puppy but whilst it's a really good > little distro for non-techie's to do web/email/office, it's a bit of a > shag learning a slack-based distro so you can get it to do *anything* > else - and you end up having to compile everything onto it cos the > package handler isn't really functional yet - then the compiler breaks > if you install it to HD! DSL is grumpyl. I was contemplating slapping > XFCE on Debian or something but obviously that isn't going to work for > the non-techie users. I'm really looking for something with oob > functinality for non-tech users that can revive the clapped out PCs used > by lots of smaller charities (besides something low-hassle for the > eeePC). > > Lubuntu does the job, your basic web/email/office stuff oob, and I can > get stuff I need like sshfs and nfs clients etc working on the cli in 10 > mins. Chromium gets on my nerves but I thought I'd try Midori which > seems OK. Pity the swiftfox/swiftweasel projects seem a bit lacking in > energy - need the functionality of FF but it just hogs ridiculous > amounts of HD :( > > Anyway, Lubuntu's the first 'lite' Ubuntu flavour that really does the > job oob yet is a grown-up OS which I could feel confident giving to > non-techie charity orgs too. > > Paula > > > -- > ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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