On 30 June 2010 20:41, Ashish Bhatia <ashishbhatia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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), Both KDE4 and Gnome when mixed with Firefox and Open Office need good amount of RAM . You can use KDE3.X which comes as default in debian lenny and is very stable (to say the least) >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. *Ubuntu is an unstable distribution and relies heavily on community feedback in the case of xubuntu its definitely less than ubuntu . Go for XFCE on Debian( even on testing(currently squeeze) you will it very stable . http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso The baove link is a debian cd1 with basic packages and xfce as desktop . Regards, Pavithran pavithran sakamuri http://look-pavi.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
