[aklug] Re: Fluxbuntu

Chris,

Thanks for taking the time to share. It's good to hear that others =20
are trying other window managers. Some of the 'veterans' use =20
minimalistic window managers as well. XFCE seems to be somewhat =20
popular in the group as well.

Keep playing around and let us know more!

Mike B.

Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:

> This will probably bore all you veterans, but if you'll bear with a
> newbie...
> I just wanted to mention that I tried Fluxbuntu (http://fluxbuntu.org/)
> the other day and I really liked it. It is a minimalistic version of
> Ubuntu that uses the Fluxbox windows manager.
>
> It was also the first distro I've tried that worked perfectly on my old
> 400 MHz laptop. But the performance was so good that I'd consider using
> it on my better hardware (I kind of like the minimalistic, ground-up
> approach to building a system.) And I was able to find all the packages
> I needed with the apt-get and aptitude tools. Fluxbox seems to take a
> different approach to a lot of things than KDE, but I liked many of the
> differences once I was able to get things figured out.
>
> Well, anyway... bye now.
>
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Received on Tue Jul 8 17:54:00 2008