Hi all. I've been lurking around on the list for quite some time, through the Gutsy cycle, and doing so has taught me a lot about how a distribution is developed and maintained. Up until now I've kept quiet for fear of making a fool of myself, but that fear has diminished of late, so here goes...
When it comes to hardware I am a thrifty (cheap) consumer. When Yellow Dog Linux abandoned the SCSI-based Macs a few years ago I finally had to bite the bullet and buy a PC. I must have put on twenty different flavors of Linux before I settled on Xubuntu. Here was finally something stable and usable and fast that didn't demand I buy a new PC any time soon. But , realistically, what is the life-span of a PC? Ten years? Five years? You can buy the computer I bought three years ago for seventy-five dollars on e-bay, re-furbished, shipping included. It seems to me that as Xubuntu evolves the hardware required to run it must evolve as well, and striking the balance between function and system resources is difficult. But I believe if Xubuntu runs perfectly on a computer that costs less than a hundred dollars (and probably will for another five years, assuming the distribution survives) why worry about it? Xubuntu is a fine distribution and I'd like to contribute it's development if I can figure out how. Greg Richardson -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
