[LinuxUsers] fluxbuntu

[Paul Saenz]

Chris Penn wrote:

>why not just use Fluxbox on Hardy?

My problem is that my laptop is relly old... about 6 years.
It has pentium III and 256 megs of ram. I am going to put
another 256 in, which is its full capacity. With the added ram, 
and the lightweight WM, I'm hoping I can put together a system
that will have much better performance. Right now my ubuntu is
painfully slow, and I believe it is because of the Gnome DE.I'm 
not really sure, but I think that Hardy will still be using Gnome 
Desktop environment.
 
I just put a new cd-rw/DVD player in it because the old one died.
So I was thinking I would make 5 partitions. One for Ubuntu as
a fallback if things go wrong, one to try out fluxbuntu, one to 
try out IceWM/w LXDE, one for swap (about 1.1gig) and one 
for data to share between all distros, that way I can try out 
some different distributions that are lightweight. (eg. DSM/  
Chrunch Bang linux) or some other lightweight distro.

On one test partitions I will try out different distros, on the other I 
will try to build my own minimal build. On both I will try a few 
different options to experiment and learn.

I just learned that the developers have moved off the project so 
fluxbuntu is out. I will need to investigate other options.

Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Paul Saenz <downtoearthman at hotmail.com> wrote:






I know that fluxbuntu is stable 7.10 and testing 8.10

And, I  know that ubuntu 7.04 is no longer supported.

and, since 7.10 ubuntu is not LTS, does that mean that

fluxbuntu 7.10 is not secure (as in unsupported)


How can fluxbuntu 7.10 have security updates if 
ubuntu 7.10 doesn't?

Is fluxbuntu 8.10 stable enough to be considered
no longer beta?

Thanks for your input

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