A.Scotchmer
February 23rd, 2008, 06:33 PM
Hi
I've just install BeaFanatiX (BFX) Linux on an old Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT and what a great little distro. The .iso image comes in at just 180mb.
Sadly its no longer supported, the developers moving to Debris linux (sadly Debris cannot load the GUI on this old spec laptop), however it has got me wondering why we have all these lightweight ubuntu distro's with enlightenment, fluxbox, XFCE etc as there desktop?
You see BFX uses Gnome as its desktop and it absolutely flies. I have tried many lightweight linux's including fluxubuntu, Zen Walk, Xubuntu (which is midweight really) Alinux, Dream Linux, SAM 2007, and a host of others and BFX with its genuine gnome desktop beats them all. Its as fast as XP use to be when I had it installed on the machine.
So why can someone not develop a light Ubuntu distro that uses Gnome?
Andrew
I've just install BeaFanatiX (BFX) Linux on an old Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT and what a great little distro. The .iso image comes in at just 180mb.
Sadly its no longer supported, the developers moving to Debris linux (sadly Debris cannot load the GUI on this old spec laptop), however it has got me wondering why we have all these lightweight ubuntu distro's with enlightenment, fluxbox, XFCE etc as there desktop?
You see BFX uses Gnome as its desktop and it absolutely flies. I have tried many lightweight linux's including fluxubuntu, Zen Walk, Xubuntu (which is midweight really) Alinux, Dream Linux, SAM 2007, and a host of others and BFX with its genuine gnome desktop beats them all. Its as fast as XP use to be when I had it installed on the machine.
So why can someone not develop a light Ubuntu distro that uses Gnome?
Andrew