[GLLUG] Why I left Ubuntu

[Ben Chavez]

I heard lots of people really like CrunchBang (#!) For what I understand is
lighting fast in Pentium 4 machines, and in the plus side uses lots of the
tools you are already familiar with, like Synaptic packages manager and
'apt-get' in the command line. It is base in Debian, therefore stability
also goes hand and hand with crunchbang

Perhaps you could give it a look here is the link to their web site
http://crunchbang.org/download/

Good luck to you.


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Why I left Ubuntu (Patrick Goupell)
   2. Re: Why I left Ubuntu (Clay Dowling)
   3. Re: Why I left Ubuntu (Bert W. Carrier Jr.)
   4. Re: Why I left Ubuntu (mapleuser at att.net)
   5. Re: Why I left Ubuntu (Chick Tower)
   6. Re: Why I left Ubuntu (Chick Tower)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:28:26 -0400
From: Patrick Goupell <patrick at upmerchants.com>
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Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Why I left Ubuntu
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On 07/24/2013 01:16 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
> This is a great discussion, thanks to all who contributed.  It is also 
> timely for me because support for my beloved Ubuntu 10.04LTS is coming 
> to an end, and sooner or later I'll have to switch to something else.
> I don't care for Unity and Gnome 3.0 is too resource-hungry for my P4 
> 2.4ghz machines.  Any suggestions?
>

I use debian 7.0 (Wheezy).

During the install select the base system ONLY.

after reboot install kdebase (or kde-base I don't remember exactly right
now) and kdm.  Doing this you don't get all of the programs / applications
you never use.

After that install whatever else you want:  synaptic, iceweasel, icedove,
libreoffice, etc...

Patrick
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:37:43 -0400
From: Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com>
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On 07/24/2013 01:16 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
> This is a great discussion, thanks to all who contributed.  It is also 
> timely for me because support for my beloved Ubuntu 10.04LTS is coming 
> to an end, and sooner or later I'll have to switch to something else.
> I don't care for Unity and Gnome 3.0 is too resource-hungry for my P4 
> 2.4ghz machines.  Any suggestions?
You might find out when Chick is next going to be at a meeting.  He shares
your passion for Clinton Administration era hardware and he's had some luck.
Ben Chavez is also constantly changing his distro (and Ben is there most
weeks) and might have some excellent recommendations.

I stopped playing with the ancient hardware on a regular basis when I
started having to use my laptop for work.

Clay
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:43:04 -0400
From: "Bert W. Carrier Jr." <bertcarrier at gmail.com>
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Clinton-era hardware???   I resemble that remark!

Thanks :)


On 07/24/2013 01:37 PM, Clay Dowling wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 01:16 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
>> This is a great discussion, thanks to all who contributed.  It is 
>> also timely for me because support for my beloved Ubuntu 10.04LTS is 
>> coming to an end, and sooner or later I'll have to switch to 
>> something else.  I don't care for Unity and Gnome 3.0 is too 
>> resource-hungry for my P4 2.4ghz machines.  Any suggestions?
> You might find out when Chick is next going to be at a meeting. He 
> shares your passion for Clinton Administration era hardware and he's 
> had some luck.  Ben Chavez is also constantly changing his distro (and 
> Ben is there most weeks) and might have some excellent recommendations.
>
> I stopped playing with the ancient hardware on a regular basis when I 
> started having to use my laptop for work.
>
> Clay
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:05:02 -0400
From: mapleuser at att.net
To: "Bert W. Carrier Jr." <bertcarrier at gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-user at egr.msu.edu" <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Why I left Ubuntu
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Hi,
Try Mint 12.0
Phil

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On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:43 PM, "Bert W. Carrier Jr." <bertcarrier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Clinton-era hardware???   I resemble that remark!
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> 
> On 07/24/2013 01:37 PM, Clay Dowling wrote:
>> On 07/24/2013 01:16 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
>>> This is a great discussion, thanks to all who contributed.  It is also
timely for me because support for my beloved Ubuntu 10.04LTS is coming to an
end, and sooner or later I'll have to switch to something else.  I don't
care for Unity and Gnome 3.0 is too resource-hungry for my P4 2.4ghz
machines.  Any suggestions?
>> You might find out when Chick is next going to be at a meeting.  He
shares your passion for Clinton Administration era hardware and he's had
some luck.  Ben Chavez is also constantly changing his distro (and Ben is
there most weeks) and might have some excellent recommendations.
>> 
>> I stopped playing with the ancient hardware on a regular basis when I
started having to use my laptop for work.
>> 
>> Clay
>> 
>> 
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:56:09 -0500
From: Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com>
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On 07/24/2013 12:37 PM, Clay Dowling wrote:
> I stopped playing with the ancient hardware on a regular basis when I 
> started having to use my laptop for work.

Where's the fun in throwing money at the problem?
-- 

                                Chick


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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:11:24 -0500
From: Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com>
To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Why I left Ubuntu
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On 07/24/2013 12:16 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
> This is a great discussion, thanks to all who contributed.  It is also 
> timely for me because support for my beloved Ubuntu 10.04LTS is coming 
> to an end, and sooner or later I'll have to switch to something else.  
> I don't care for Unity and Gnome 3.0 is too resource-hungry for my P4 
> 2.4ghz machines.  Any suggestions?

If you want speed, it's hard to go wrong with Slackware, Arch, or Debian,
avoiding KDE and Gnome both.  Several Slackware derivatives (Zenwalk,
Vector, & Salix) make Slackware a little easier to use.  The same is true
for Arch (Manjaro & ArchBang).  If you want to stay with something more like
Ubuntu, but lightweight, go with my earlier suggestion of Bodhi Linux; it's
based on Ubuntu but uses the Enlightenment window manager, which looks very
nice.
-- 

                                Chick


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