{"id":361,"date":"2010-02-18T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2010-02-18T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T05:37:08","slug":"lxde-the-cure-for-what-ails-our-older-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"“LXDE – the cure for what ails our older PCs”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not my headline, but one from Christopher Dawson over at ZDNet<\/a>.\u00a0 Seeing as how I’m under the effect of another bloody Chinook headache, and seeing as how I can’t get the neurons firing to think of a topic to blab about myself, I will just let you read that.<\/p>\n

And read this<\/a> too, because it’s got some nice detailed info.\u00a0 That second article is actually where I first read about “Lubuntu”.\u00a0 And now I use “Lubuntu” on 4 of my computers.\u00a0 The only computer that still runs basic Ubuntu with Gnome and Nautilus is my newest one, with 2 cores and 4 gigs of memory.<\/p>\n

I can’t think right now… fucking headache.\u00a0 So I’ll copy & paste some numbers:<\/p>\n

Lubuntu: 57,908 KB
\nXubuntu: 156,852 KB
\nUbuntu: 153,840 KB<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s memory usage on a fresh install at the point when the desktop has finished loading.\u00a0 I used to use Xubuntu, and actually 3 of those “Lubuntu” machines of mine are still basically Xubuntu machines with the LXDE package installed.\u00a0 My first computer has a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 that got the lovely, shiny LXDE desktop put on it.\u00a0 What Mr. Dawson says in his post is very true.\u00a0 For a simple user-friendly Linux distro for older hardware, you can’t go wrong with Lubuntu.<\/p>\n

Now the problem, as I see it.\u00a0 Lubuntu<\/a> technically doesn’t exist as an installable OS yet.\u00a0 You can download<\/a> and try out a Live CD, but that CD won’t give you an option to install.<\/p>\n

That’s coming in April, but to get it the way I did is easy.\u00a0 Just install the LXDE desktop package to your system.\u00a0 My Ubuntu 8.04 installation didn’t include the LXDE package, so I had to add a Launchpad repository to my software sources list.\u00a0 If you’re a Windows user and you have no idea what I’m babbling about, never mind.<\/p>\n

I’d go into more detail and give some more links, but my head hurts.<\/p>\n

Check out what LXDE looks like<\/a>.\u00a0 I fell in love with it not only because it’s extremely efficient and full-featured, but also because it looks so damn good!\u00a0 You can use GTK themes with it too, and I had some leftover from my Xubuntu days that mesh with LXDE just perfectly.<\/p>\n

The only gripe I have about my “Lubuntu” setups are that I have to mount and unmount media manually.\u00a0 Meh.\u00a0 Small annoyance, but I’m sure with the Ubuntu people working on it, there will be an improvement there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not my headline, but one from Christopher Dawson over at ZDNet.\u00a0 Seeing as how I’m under the effect of another bloody Chinook headache, and seeing as how I can’t get the neurons firing to think of a topic to blab about myself, I will just let you read that. And read this too, because it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7,6],"tags":[554,8,555,194],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","category-lxde","category-ubuntu","tag-linux","tag-lubuntu","tag-ubuntu","tag-xubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}