[ubuntu-us-in] A Natty Day To You All

[Jeremy L. Gaddis]

"Mark C. Miller" <mmiller at millermc.net> wrote:
> I'd love to try the switch over, but the new meatier graphics
> requirements for Unity are stopping me.  I have some old P4 HT
> machines that have been running ubuntu since I first started with
> 8.04.  Now, I'm dead-in-the-water.  Good thing I tested it with a

I'm not an Ubuntu-on-the-desktop user, but 11.04 has both xfce[0] and
awesome[1] (my choice) according to packages.ubuntu.com.  Both will have
*much* lower resource requirements.

Being a CLI junkie and "mouse-hater" I find that awesome works quite
well for me on those instances when I do need a GUI (mostly just for a
browser).

Perhaps one of those might be better suited for your older machines?

[0]: http://www.xfce.org/
[1]: http://awesome.naquadah.org/

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Jeremy L. Gaddis