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[Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops!  Sorry about the top posting.

Keep up the good work Lubuntu team!  You've got fans.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Tim Bernhard <ohiomoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "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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