Re: Xbuntu

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:35:15 -0600, §ñühw¤£f wrote:

On 26 Sep 2007 17:25:01 +0200
Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wasted precious bandwith with:

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:51:39 -0600, §ñühw¤£f wrote:

Also look at Absolute Linux, which will run like a rocket on
your> hardware but still has (nearly) all the conveniences and
comforts.

But no built in wifi, no automounting of pcmcia cards...

Wifi support is there. I have a laptop in the next room connected
right now. Using a PCMCIA card. So I have no idea what you mean.

Did you have to get madwifi and install that first?

This one's running on ndiswrapper.

It'd be nice if I could just pop the card in and have a nice GUI to
configure it with...the pcmcia-linux site says my Netgear WG511T
*is* linux compatible.

Wi-fi Radar and RutilT are great for setting up connections. Absolute has
WFR and ndiswrapper included.

If you meant "automounting of removeable drives", 12.oX does that
if you have HAL automounting on.

Well I think I prolly do a "mkdir /mnt/sandisk" and then mess
around in fstab to get it to work. I'm learning slowly...

With HAL and udev you should not need to do any of that. Which is the
point of having them.

I put it on a compaq Duron 900 laptop and while its "fast" its
also pretty sparse on features that are included with a kde
desktop.

So is anything else that doesn't have KDE, and the OP was asking
about an XFCE-based distro.

Ugh...xfce is horrid. He wants zenwalk linux then...minislack became
"zenwalk" and decided to make xfce the default for them.
KDE is much easier.

Actually, I quite like XFCE, but it has gotten nearly as porky as the
other desktop environments.

Today I set up an old box to serve as a testbed for some stuff I'm
messing with. Debian Lenny base install, add xorg-server, Firefox, and
fvwm-crystal and it's a good-looking semi-desktop-environment setup that
runs like a rocket on a 1GHz P3 and takes up 1.1GB of disk.
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