Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
Its great, but its not what Id call lightweight, still good when you want something a bit nippier than Ubuntu or Kubuntu, but If I'm using an old box, I'd prefer Arch with Fluxbox or XFCE (or maybe even KDEmod) On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Russell Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:21 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John I have it on my laptop on which I use for web design. I was very impressed with it too, although I think it is a bit odd that they use firefox as the default web browser as I found it very slow and memory intensive. It is pretty amazing how fast it runs (loads up in about 1 minute) on my Pentium II which struggles to run Windows NT. This is the kind of thing we should be trying to tell people about - who knows what people have in their attic dismissed as unusable. Even if you do have to have a book with you when using it for when it's sorting itself out (and at least it does sort itself out) it saved at least two of my laptops from the skip. Craig I used it on an old pc I had before installing puppy.Its ok, but wasnt really light enough for the pc specs. Russell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Mr JE Grabham -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Gavin Ford wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:52:03PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so you might want to at least try a LiveCD. I've been updating all the way, the problem is still here in Hardy. The LiveCD is a good idea, I'll give it a go and see if it's something in my old xorg.conf. I did test with a LiveCD and the problem had vanished. Poking about I found the root of the issue, it was down to me still using the older i810 driver in my xorg rather than the newer intel one. Problem solved. :) Cheers People. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Attach the kettle capacitor signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
Yes i have only just installed xubuntu 2 days ago! i have to say i have found it quite fast! then again i havent installed everything i had on ubuntu hardy ( an upgrade from gutsy+myth) it takes a bit of getting used to! But im liking it so farits minimalistic! On 21/05/2008, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
Hi John, I had Xubuntu 7.04 and then 7.10 running on an old (circa 2001) 1.9GHz P4 (with 1GB RAM, 40GB HD). It ran very well indeed, and I was really impressed with the way it gave my ageing kit an Indian summer packed with Linux power and goodness. Inevitably, the elderly E-IDE drive (which must have been 150 years old in disc years) took a unilateral and executive decision to spontaneously retire, but I still have the sweet memories ;) No doubt Xubuntu is a great option for extending the life of many old laptops out there, as well as providing a lighter-weight option for current entry-level spec laptops. I might also be a good option for people with local development and file-sharing type servers, who want to provide non-specialist co-workers with a GUI onto the system, but don't want to clobber their Celeron and its 512MB RAM with a full GNOME or KDE install ;) I'm sure you're aware of this, but if you find yourself missing any tools from GNOME, you can install most of them without problems on Xubuntu. At least, I installed several GNOME-specific admin tools and apps without any problems. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21:34AM +0100, John Levin wrote: Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? I use parts of Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I installed from an Ubuntu 7.04 disc and later removed ubuntu-desktop and installed xubuntu-desktop. Using Fluxbox as a Window manager and the Thunar file manager from XFCE rather than Gnome. There are lots of good parts to XFCE, but it's still a little heavyweight for me. I've also never been a fan of the Start Menu setup, I prefer the right click the desktop for a menu way. I still use the gnome-settings-daemon rather than xfce-mcs-manager as the XFCE tool causes strange graphical defects in Firefox for me. Also the XFCE settings tool lacks the GTK theme colour tweaking the Gnome one has. If it wasn't for the weird graphical defects, I'd drop Gnome and stick with the XFCE stuff. These defects aren't limited to Ubuntu, I get the same with Debian, the common feature is an Intel graphics setup so it could be a problem between the Intel X driver and XFCE if other people aren't seeing it. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Install the energon relay signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
Gavin Ford wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21:34AM +0100, John Levin wrote: Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? I use parts of Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I installed from an Ubuntu 7.04 disc and later removed ubuntu-desktop and installed xubuntu-desktop. Using Fluxbox as a Window manager and the Thunar file manager from XFCE rather than Gnome. There are lots of good parts to XFCE, but it's still a little heavyweight for me. I've also never been a fan of the Start Menu setup, I prefer the right click the desktop for a menu way. I still use the gnome-settings-daemon rather than xfce-mcs-manager as the XFCE tool causes strange graphical defects in Firefox for me. I am an appreciative and occasional user. I am not fluent with much clever stuff and have often chosen the rather lazy option of also installing ubuntu-desktop (in addition to xubuntu-desktop) and if anything difficult (for me) occurs, I can log into gnome and be on more familiar ground, albeit more slowly, while sorting something out :-) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
John Levin wrote: Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? We use it at work to get a vaguely up-to-date supported distro on an elderly laptop. No idea quite how elderly, because whoever set the BIOS password has long departed the company, but sufficiently elderly to not have built-in WiFi. It works superbly. Gavin Ford wrote: feature is an Intel graphics setup so it could be a problem between the Intel X driver and XFCE if other people aren't seeing it. The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so you might want to at least try a LiveCD. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:52:03PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so you might want to at least try a LiveCD. I've been updating all the way, the problem is still here in Hardy. The LiveCD is a good idea, I'll give it a go and see if it's something in my old xorg.conf. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Transform the quasar cell signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:21 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John I have it on my laptop on which I use for web design. I was very impressed with it too, although I think it is a bit odd that they use firefox as the default web browser as I found it very slow and memory intensive. It is pretty amazing how fast it runs (loads up in about 1 minute) on my Pentium II which struggles to run Windows NT. This is the kind of thing we should be trying to tell people about - who knows what people have in their attic dismissed as unusable. Even if you do have to have a book with you when using it for when it's sorting itself out (and at least it does sort itself out) it saved at least two of my laptops from the skip. Craig -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?
Craig wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:21 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John I have it on my laptop on which I use for web design. I was very impressed with it too, although I think it is a bit odd that they use firefox as the default web browser as I found it very slow and memory intensive. It is pretty amazing how fast it runs (loads up in about 1 minute) on my Pentium II which struggles to run Windows NT. This is the kind of thing we should be trying to tell people about - who knows what people have in their attic dismissed as unusable. Even if you do have to have a book with you when using it for when it's sorting itself out (and at least it does sort itself out) it saved at least two of my laptops from the skip. Craig I used it on an old pc I had before installing puppy.Its ok, but wasnt really light enough for the pc specs. Russell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
