On 20 July 2010 11:54, pmgazz <[email protected]> wrote: > Also takes a lot of fiddling about to set up a custom Debian desktop and I > don't have time to make a habit of it. It's a while since I reviewed all the > packaged lightweight desktops and there's been a lot of development since > then, I'll have a look at Peppermint. There was an Ubuntu-lite version which > seems to have died - I also rather liked the Fluxbuntu effort - but that > also seems to have died. > > It is a bit of a gap with Ubuntu - it'd be great if there was a version as > lightweight as Fluxbuntu was and yet useable for web, Abiword etc for > non-techies.
That is what Ubuntu Lite tried to be - later rebadged U-Lite. We never got the critical mass together, though. :¬( http://u-lite.org/ Now the mantle seems to be passing on to Lubuntu. Me, I'm watching Crunchbang with interest, but it's not a beginners' distro. -- Liam Proven • Profile & links: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
