Building a Highly Functional Desktop with Lightweight Software

March 14th, 2008 | Category: OS

“When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can assume how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it’s fairly irritating.

I didn’t want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu considering the mini PC doesn’t have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of goods that would have taken a distant instance to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience.”

Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda)

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