[Adding xubuntu-devel to the CC list] Hi Ken,
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:37:36PM -0500, TFN Executive Director wrote: > A bit of googling got me antother alias. Just in case you aren't looking > at the ubuntu.com address... My Ubuntu account has issues with forwarding at the moment; my sh.nu account is preferable. > Hi Michael (I think I > ve got that right?), (Daniel) > I manage Toronto Free-Net, a nonprofit ISP since 1994 with a mandate to > remove barriers to Internet access. > > I am working on a project with the city of Toronto to get a few thousand > circa 1999 off lease P2 400 with 128RAM computers into service with dialup > connections to low income people here. > > I have potential OS support / remote admin sponsorship from Xandros.com > lined up. I am just afraid that their kde desktop will be too sluggish. > > I see from an online forum post that you manage a lighter desktop distro > for Ubuntu. Our requirements are that these machines have a Windows like > look and feel and that they perform reasonably well with a couple of > heavier applications like firefox, thunderbird and open office edtior. I'd > like to include things like skype over dialup and pda support too. Xfce doesn't quite match the Windows look-and-feel as well as KDE does, but it certainly has a much lighter resource footprint. Mozilla Firefox works just dandy under Xfce as does Mozilla Thunderbird. OpenOffice.org tends to be more resource-intensive, so we're investigating Abiword instead, but OO.o certainly remains an option. Perhaps others here on the devel mailing list can chime in. > The main problem of getting Lucent modems to work has mostly been solved, > although cheaper modems would be nicer. > > We have also tried the win95 linux window manager on knoppix which is a bit > foreign to look at. > > Any advice? Xandros is a nice OS but would we be making a mistake? Frankly, you won't go wrong choosing a Linux distro, be it Debian (or a derivative), Fedora Core, SUSE, ... If you're looking for a light- weight desktop choice like Xfce, then installing the Ubuntu 5.10 "server" option and then installing the 'xubuntu-desktop' package will give you a nice Xfce desktop. If you have additional objectives, we encourage you to sign up on this mailing list and discuss them. Cheers, -- Daniel T. Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc
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