Actually, I'm happy running gnome, though YEARS AGO when I had Mandrake (which should date me) Linux running on one of my machines, I was a KDE user and liked it. On Nov 17, 2011 1:18 PM, "Mark Wallace" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try Lubuntu and Xubuntu. Your system could probably handle at least some > of the features in the newer distros. > > Also try turning the crank, faster. LOL > > Mark > > > On 11/17/2011 01:12 PM, Wesley Peterson wrote: > > I'm also running an old system at home. I still use 8.04 because some > features of the later LTS didn't play well with my video board. > > Wes > On Nov 17, 2011 1:08 PM, "James E. LaBarre" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/17/2011 12:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Kubuntu 11.10. If your system is more than a year or two old, your video >>> card might not be up to snuff. That can be fixed in command line, but a >>> first time user (I hate the term newbie) might really freak out when he >>> gets a black screen. >>> >> >> A year or two??? HA, my home system is more like 7 years old, and no >> budget to get anything else. I hope that's not a requirement for OSes from >> this point out, otherwise I'll be going back to quill pens and inkwells <g>. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium >> Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef >> Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects >> Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.orghttp://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > >
_______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server
