Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
I can't remember if it came with Gnash already pre-installed or not. But, I can watch flash videos on Abrowser, with the Gnash plug-in, in such computer running Mini.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Well, the main difference is the DE, so I guess I use neither. I installed from the regular GNOME Fallback liveCD, but I use GNOME Shell.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Lightweight OS's are becoming pretty popular, from what I know. (from DistroWatch, in the beginning of 2011:) Looking through the tables, an interesting thing is the rise of distributions that use the lightweight, but full-featured LXDE desktop or the Openbox window manager. As an example, Lubuntu now comfortably beats Kubuntu in terms of page hits, while CrunchBang Linux, a lightweight distribution with Openbox is still in the top 25 even though it failed to produce a stable release for well over a year. Many other distributions started offering LXDE-based editions of their products, further contributing to the dramatic rise in popularity of this relatively new desktop environment. I suppose many people still have old computers around, that they can use, and also make the same type of reasoning as I do, even for new computers, and just decide that they don't need all the extra fancy features that other, more heavyweight, OS's have. I've even installed Xfce on a laptop bought only 2 years ago, because there's simply no need for anything more than that, for everyone who uses such computer, to do everything they need, and it's a much more simple DE to use than GNOME, with the shell and all that, that it could run, with no problems.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Thank for the responses guys. I'm surprised at how popular Mini seems to be. My computer is a pretty regular laptop. It has a dual core Pentium processor. Trisquel runs well on it. I was wondering if Mini might run faster. Here are my specs (I think these are right): 2.2ghz dual core Pentium 2mb cache 2gb ram 40 gb hdd 5400 rpm
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
My laptop runs pretty fast with the normal Trisquel DE. 1.5 GHz Pentium M, 1 GB of RAM (2 Matched 512 MB RAM) 40 GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400 RPM
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Cool; I was thinking of getting Abrowser even if I use Mini. It probably won't come with Gnash and other extras (if there are any other extras) pre-installed from the repos though, right?
[Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
I haven't tried Mini, but I'm thinking about switching when the new edition comes out. How do the two compare? How do Midori and Abrowser compare, for example?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Mini. Because I use it on an old laptop (secondary) computer, in which GNOME wouldn't run as well or as fast as LXDE. Besides, I stopped using GNOME, a long time ago, for being unnecessarily heavy. And, I think that Xfce is the best DE, that now exists, in terms of speed vs. functionalities trade-off. (Rubén says that GNOME has more accessibility options, for the visually impaired and such. So, for those persons, it makes sense to use it. But, for the rest, I don't think that GNOME is that much of a DE (even if it has more functionalities) ever since Xfce appeared. Midori is not an option for me, nevertheless... It's missing a lot of (very useful) functionalities that Abrowser has. And, if you browse a lot and want a decent experience, you'll have to use the latter. (Which, with a light DE, like LXDE, is not a bad combination.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
I use both. I use Trisquel on my desktop and Trisquel Mini on my netbook.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
In my opinion Trisquel Mini only with 256MB or less.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Do you use Trisquel, or Trisquel Mini?
Desktop(2004) Celeron 2.5Ghz running Trisquel 64-bit with 1GB of RAM DDR. Laptop(2004) Pentium M 1.8GHz (32-bit only) running Trisquel 32-bit with 1GB of RAM DDR. Laptop(2008) Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz running Trisquel 64-bit with 2GB of RAM DDR3. Desktop(2011) Core i3 3.10GHz running Trisquel 64-bit with 4GB of RAM DDR3. I always prefer Trisquel because it is complete (with GNOME Fallback or GNOME Shell). Mini is fast but need many changes to be good to daily use.
