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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

I originally sent this e-mail to Ali, so I am sending it out to everyone 
on the list now..

Have you decided on DE, yet?
I'd like to make the suggestion to use slim as the display manager, and 
jwm + menu + menu-xdg as it runs on a 900mhz 128 MB system.  And 
installing localepurge (this trims out all the non important language 
things)
ROX can handle the desktop and usbmount can automatically mount media 
when it is installed.  Though I haven't gotten everything sorted out yet 
on my old machine (update ROX desktop when things are plugged in, JWM 
look-and-feel configuration), but it works on both Debian and Ubuntu.  I 
think basing it off of Debian will make it smaller, but you don't get 
all the goodness of Ubuntu with it :(
I have been tweaking JWM trying to get it up to my usability and ease of 
use standards, and so far I can do most anything on that old computer!
So, you might provide different DE installs in a dialog, for instance

What kind of Computer:
1. Very old, very slow computer
2. Old slow computer
3. Old computer
4. Newer computer
5. Fast
6. Not sure
7. Geek Mode

You could have Not Sure run a script to check the processor speed and 
Memory to automatically pick one based on ranges.
Geek Mode could be something like
1. JWM + Rox
2. Minimal LXDE
3. Full LXDE
4. Xfce
5. KDE
6. Show the Computer Specs
7. Normal Mode

Just a thought I had while tweaking some stuff, so I figured I'd pass it 
along to you in case you were interested



I'll add one more thing here....
I have been browsing through the Puppy Linux scripts that handle a lot 
of the automatic stuff, and have noticed that it uses Xdialog (which 
isn't available in Trusty.. not sure about 12.04)  to make GUI elements 
for scripts, so I was thinking that some of the lightweight 
configuration could be handled by gdialog/BASH to make it pretty and 
light, as bash is already included, and scripts are not very big 
(usually) and are easy to change (no recompile).
I am still looking for a good way to tweak ROX to its fullest 
potential... though openbox can work as well (AFAIK) with JWM tray (the 
panel)

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Regards