[Tfug] Thinking linux

[christopher floess]

The speed is something on the order of 700 or 800 mHz duron, w/ like 750 mB
of ram. By guts, I do mean the kernel, and all the other system config
stuff. I'm used to doing all that stuff in text editor, instead of with a
*Control Center* type
environment. I also don't want all the bells and whistles that come w/
KDE. I use fvwm w/ a very simple but intuitive config file. It's all
I need or want. I'm not a programmer or developer or anything, but as I
started to learn FreeBSD, I started to realise that a bit of a simple,
stripped down environment satisfies me more.

Anyway, I think I've decided to go with XUbuntu. Mainly because I have a
friend at work who has decided to take the plunge and move away from
windows. She's not a computer enthusiast though, and I would like to
help her stick with it. I've been able to help
her with generic unix-like questions, but I'd like to be able to give her
ubuntu specific answers.

On 2/7/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/5/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, thanks everyone. I'll let you know how it goes once I start. I'd
> let
> > you know what I end up running, but I still haven't picked. At first it
> > was
> > slack, then gentoo, now I'm leaning toward debian. Anyway, I'll keep you
> > posted
>
>
>
> I ran across an article somewhere, a how-to on taking the current Debian
> Stable (3.1/Sarge) and hand-upgrading it to the sort of desktop
> functionality (and a bit of eye-candy) that Ubuntu or similar offers.
>
> Hrmmmm...FOUND IT!
>
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT8143350649.html
>
> The upshot seems to be that, as long as you're willing to tweak things
> here
> and there (manually loading bits that are needed by higher-level apps) it
> will work fine, but it's not for the newbie.
>
> Jim
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