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[Dallas Wiebelhaus <wiebelhaus@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with David. Also anyone who is performing these highly specialized
installations is certainly going to have the knowledge required to open the
command line and "sudo apt-get whatever gui or lack thereof" he/she wants.


n Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, David Sugar <david.sugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I actually was not suggesting there should be such a remix.  I was
> suggesting however that one could potentially do this with mini-iso
> install by selecting them explicitly at install time if we have lxde
> desktop as a task in mini-iso.  And yes, one could do a server install
> and add lxde/lubuntu after.  It can in some cases be useful to have a
> local server gui console.  Another interesting scenario is ltsp.
>
> Mikhail Maksimov wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Just one thing I wanted to note: server GUI is a bad idea. If you want
> > server, you install server, if you want a workstation on low-grade
> > hardware, you install Lubuntu. If you have low-grade hardware to use as
> > a server, you definitely shouldn't be wasting the precious (and, oh, so
> > limited!) RAM and CPU resources on GUI instead of serving something.
> >
> > If someone wants to have lubuntu desktop on server, there's always an
> > option of installing server then adding any desktop environment, or
> > maybe installing Lubuntu then switching to the server kernel. But I
> > think all the possible "mix" options should not be part of Lubuntu
> > installer, nor should there be a separate server+LXDE remix of Lubuntu
> > (Ubuntu?)
> >
> > Regards!
> > Mikhail
> >
> > PS If you don't like vi, you can use nano, it's part of the server
> > install and it is WYSIWIG.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Josef A. Beroeatwarin
> > <rajatanpacelana@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:rajatanpacelana@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hai everybody
> >
> >     Hai I tested Lubuntu on my MSI wind U100, I am not a pro like you
> >     guys but I like to have my hands on it because I really believe
> lubuntu
> >     will be much better the Xubuntu. And of course I WANT to have a very
> >     lightweight linux on my netbook and PC.
> >
> >     I am running on Ubuntu 9.10 remix  installed on my MSI Wind U100,
> >     after I while I started with Apt to install LXDE....
> >     After running on LXDE I was satisfied and very optimistic that  it
> >     will be one  that  I am looking for.( after a lot of  switching for
> >     linux to linux)
> >
> >     Here are the problems on the MSI wind U100:
> >
> >     * Filemanager Pcman  0.5.1 on the left windows are drives displayed
> >     twice. if you click one of the with the same name you will get an
> >     error-message "Directory doesnt exist"
> >     * Wicd it a very nice looking piece but to bad, to while connection
> >     the the wirelles network (WEP) ofcourse it was validated but I got
> >     an error message "Connection failed:Unable get IP Adress" that was
> >     during the status "Obtaining IP address.
> >     * I have no sound I realize I have no mixer something like that so I
> >     dont know if its muting or not.
> >     * FN keys..... FN+F4 and FN+F5 is working very well,its for dimming
> >     the back-light and  FN+F12 sleep mode is working but after wakeup
> >     its starting to sleep again and again after wakeup
> >     *My bluetooth is witched on with FN+F11 but no blue-tooth detected
> >     (sorry I forgot to listed with lsusb before installing ubuntu remix
> >     again)
> >     * Harddisk external and flashdisk is working very well.
> >
> >     My Questions,request,Ideas,what I hope very soon or whatever it is.
> >
> >     1. The Lubuntu in alpha stage on iso,when. Ofcourse everybody is
> busy.
> >     2. Lubuntu on flash disk image because there is alot of netbooks
> >     without CD or DVD.
> >     3. Sometimes I got netbook that has an SDcard as HDA is it
> >     compatible with it ?
> >     4. I think Lubuntu will be great for creating server from old PC's
> >     with GUI interface instead having console at from your nose and
> >     doing that Vi thing.Maybe is there somebody can make a server
> >     edition. While installing you can choose what of kind of server do
> >     you want to install.
> >     5. And nice front-end for backup that can make image of the drives.
> >     6. Do you guys think that thunderbird and firefox take of computer
> >     sources especially nower days there is allot of websites based on
> >     flash  like  farmville it make even windows xp slow.
> >     7. What is the other syntax like dmesg and lsusb that I can use to
> >     get info out of my toys and to send to you guys.
> >     8. Last thing that I want to say is.. I am sorry for starting asking
> >     allot of questions even the alpha  is not out yet...
> >
> >     Well guys thats it... I hope its enough for the input.....
> >
> >
> >
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