Oops! Sorry about the top posting. Keep up the good work Lubuntu team! You've got fans.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Tim Bernhard <[email protected]> wrote: > "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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> >> Date: 10 February 2011 15:04 >> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu >> To: Talk UK Ubuntu <[email protected]> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> 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 : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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