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[Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> "Anyway, Lubuntu's the first 'lite' Ubuntu flavour that really does the
> job oob yet is a grown-up OS which I could feel confident giving to
> non-techie charity orgs too."
>


Right on!  Lubuntu hits the sweet spot that others have failed to find.

Tim

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I thought I'd forward this on, it's nice when people take the time to say
> 'thanks' :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: gazz <pmgazz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10 February 2011 15:04
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu
> To: Talk UK Ubuntu <ubuntu-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> By the way, thanks to whomever suggested Lubuntu for my eeePC. I've
> finally had to bite down on the fact that it can't run Ubuntu Netbook
> sensibly with a 4GB USB HD even stripping out locales and other clutter
> and constantly cleaning up apt like a madwoman.
>
> Xubuntu's too big as well. I tried Puppy but whilst it's a really good
> little distro for non-techie's to do web/email/office, it's a bit of a
> shag learning a slack-based distro so you can get it to do *anything*
> else - and you end up having to compile everything onto it cos the
> package handler isn't really functional yet - then the compiler breaks
> if you install it to HD! DSL is grumpyl. I was contemplating slapping
> XFCE on Debian or something but obviously that isn't going to work for
> the non-techie users. I'm really looking for something with oob
> functinality for non-tech users that can revive the clapped out PCs used
> by lots of smaller charities (besides something low-hassle for the
> eeePC).
>
> Lubuntu does the job, your basic web/email/office stuff oob, and I can
> get stuff I need like sshfs and nfs clients etc working on the cli in 10
> mins. Chromium gets on my nerves but I thought I'd try Midori which
> seems OK. Pity the swiftfox/swiftweasel projects seem a bit lacking in
> energy - need the functionality of FF but it just hogs ridiculous
> amounts of HD :(
>
> Anyway, Lubuntu's the first 'lite' Ubuntu flavour that really does the
> job oob yet is a grown-up OS which I could feel confident giving to
> non-techie charity orgs too.
>
> Paula
>
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