There's a flavor of ubuntu that installs xfce as default. Xubuntu I think. Certainly low requirements for that. Of course you can always install fluxbox or whatever you use after you install.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 4/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe</b> <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
David J. Andruczyk wrote:<br>> --- Joe <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> Related issue:<br>>> Can someone tell me how to properly install Firefox and Thunderbird
<br>>> in<br>>> root land (I currently have them installed in my personal user<br>>> directory) and then how to do the updates for plugins, etc. I'm on<br>>> Mandrake 9.1 and install from tarballs. Haven't had much luck with
<br>>> rpm's, my distro is too old.<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> Have you considered moving up to a more recent distro? like whatever<br>> mandrakesoft (or mandriva) has, or ubuntu, or FC5. I'd personally
<br>> recommend ubuntu as it was dead easy to install and update, as I<br>> recently did a duron 900 mhz box (went from win2k to Linux for a family<br>> member) with ubuntu 5.10 (stable) and it runs great on it.<br>
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