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[KI7MT <ki7mt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eric,

I installed it, and the base install is very nice. It only uses about
750MB of RAM, so a 2GB system would be more that enough.

Staying with the older 10.04 (Gnome2) makes things much easier to modify
and not bashing the Lubuntu LXDE or LXQT desktop, it's much more stable,
polished and refined.

Do you really want top provide your own ISO for this? That entails allot
of work for maintaining?

With a small number of developers, we could definitely provide many more
ingratiation packages if the focus was updating a current distro to what
you want rather than building it from the ground up.

best regards

Greg.


On 05/20/2015 10:22 PM, Eric Bradshaw wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Ubuntu Mate seems like a fine choice as an alternative distro. Minimum
> requirements are very low and yes, it does seems to have several of the
> same default software choices. It is very reminiscent of Ubuntu 10.04 -
> And yes, also a/any blue theme seems better than green (I just got deep
> green car like none other I think I've ever seen. If it wasn't $1, I
> wouldn't have accepted it. I suppose it's good that I'll never misplace
> it in a parking lot.).
> 
> Eric
> 
> On 05/17/2015 01:47 PM, KI7MT wrote:
>> Correction, here's the package manifest:
>>
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/vivid/release/ubuntu-mate-15.04-desktop-i386.manifest
>>
>> On 05/17/2015 01:46 PM, KI7MT wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> I've been looking at the mods you want to do, and the available distros
>>> that may facilitate those changes much easier over Lubuntu.
>>>
>>> I think this Ubuntu-Mate Distro is a viable option. The Minimum specs
>>> are superb, support all the way down to Pentium III, and they have a
>>> ARMv7 && PPC rolls.
>>>
>>> It uses the transitional menu system of Gnome Panel rather than Unity,
>>> and the menu system is much easier to update.
>>>
>>> Tbird and several other apps are already installed (Libreoffice, VLC, ,
>>> FF Browser, etc).
>>>
>>> Several nice looking Blue GTK2/3 Themes are available, Blue being my
>>> favorite over Green.
>>>
>>> Support for i386, amd64, PPC in prebuilt ISO images.
>>>
>>> You can see the base install manifest here:
>>>
>>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/vivid/release/ubuntu-mate-15.04-desktop-i386.list
>>>
>>> I think this roll is well worth considering as the base distro and it is
>>> officially supported by Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> Greg.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
>