So now that I’m setup on my new desktop, I’m ditching windows on my laptop as well. I think I’m going to use my laptop to test drive a few distros. I was just going to put Fedora on but I figure I may as well try some of the ubuntu’s first.

I’m installing fluxbuntu as I type this. I find Gnome a bit large and clumsy so trying out something tuned specifically for fluxbox interests me a lot:

“Fluxbuntu is a LPAE-standard compliant, Ubuntu-based distribution. It is lightweight, swift and efficient. These features support the Fluxbuntu Linux Project’s Goal of running on a wide range of mobile devices and computers (low-end & high-end)”

“Fluxbuntu is an upcoming “lightweight” Linux distribution to be based on Ubuntu, version 7.04 “Feisty Fawn”, that uses Fluxbox for window manager (or desktop environment).

By contrast, with the official distributions, Ubuntu uses the GNOME desktop environment, Kubuntu uses KDE, and Xubuntu uses Xfce, all of which are thought to be somewhat more unwieldy (viz, larger and slower).”

The cool thing with fluxbuntu is that it’s a live cd. So you can throw it into a machine, boot from cd, and run it before you even install. So I was in and browsing the net in firefox within minutes. That’s just slick as you can really test drive it without touching your system.

I’m downloading the iso now for ubuntu. Judging by the pictures on the site, it’s users may be a little too happy for me.

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