I think that Xubuntu should get rid of the "old-hardware" selling point. And this new issue it's just something that imho adds up to other old hardware issues. I have a Celeron 300Mhz, 256 MB, 6 GB disk, DYN keyboard and serial mouse. The live cd won't work because of the legacy mouse. Using the alternate CD I had several problems with the key repeat bug in the gdm login screen (don't know if this is software or hardware bug, but it doesn't happen on my main machine (not so old)). So, tired of all this I decided to go with Debian Testing and configure all by hand. I was going to have to do it with Xubuntu also, so what was the point? It wasn't much faster, but at least I wasn't frustrated with the distro installer. I've also tried other distributions like Vector Linux and DSL that are much better than Debian for old hardware.
So, unless we start saying what is old hardware and what is ancient, I'd get rid of the "old hardware" selling point. Is it lighter than ubuntu or kubuntu? Yes, it sure is! And I drink to that. But it may be almost as slow or hard to configure on old (or ancient) hardware. Just my two cents. Sorry for my english and long live Xubuntu. Regards, Matías __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam �gratis! �Abr� tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar
-- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
