Sun, 04 Jan 2009

Ubuntu and Xubuntu on my Satellite

I'm very happy with both the standard Ubuntu (8.10/Intrepid Ibex) and the Xubuntu desktop on my ancient notebook. Xubuntu, which uses the Xfce desktop instead of Gnome, is supposed to use less resources; I'm not sure it makes much of a difference on my computer, which is just slow no matter what I run. I'm quite impressed with small Xfce things like the terminal emulator and the Thunar file manager, both of which start up in no time and work really well. I can even use my Dropbox with Thunar - I integrated it into Nautilus (which, like all the other stuff, works in Xfce too) but the Dropbox folder is displayed and synchronised in Thunar as well.

Posted on 04 Jan 2009 at 19:43 in /technology. -- Permalink