Hi, On Wednesday 30 June 2010 08:41 PM, Ashish Bhatia wrote:
Hi LUG members, I started with Ubuntu 8.04 but never enjoyed GNOME looks so moved to KDE till memory hog named KDE 4 came out, even KDE 4.1 was slow on my system(512MB RAM, 1.73GHz core duo), so I moved to Xubuntu whose light interface runs pretty well on my system apart from the fact that X server crashes [~once a week], I verified with other friends using Xubuntu that XFCE is not very stable and crashes do occur. (I have no intentions to debug or debate why these crashes occur, so I reuqest you to please do not debate on that). I wonder which releases do LUG members recommend with following four features 1) User has good enough experience with system(most work is done from command line) the only reason to start X server for me is to run Firefox and pidgin 2) Plain interface similar to XFCE but does not crash 3) Is not memory hog (like KDE 4) 4) must be fast(user hates compiz and any such flying effects) I have heard that archlinux is fast and simple but unstable, any comments on that? (or may be on BSD based distros?) I would recommend Lubuntu, the latest one. My brother uses it on a P4 machine with 512MB RAM. He is into animation so uses GUI all the time. However, it is very stable. HTH. Abhi -- Abhishek "Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it" -- Mahatma Gandhi _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc