[plug] Linux on a USB stick

[Craig Ringer]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 20:39 +0800, Timothy White wrote:

> Just a little 'plug'. XFCE is pretty good for fast and slow computers.
> I use it on most of my computers. From my main AMD64 right down to my
> humble gateways and media centers. It runs well, has a good interface.
> Easily customisable. Best of all it works a charm at integrating with
> Gnome and KDE. Just make sure to use XFCE 4 not anything before.

Yep, seconded and then some. Until the latest round of GNOME I used
XFCE4 on my main desktop, which is *definitely* not short on resources. 

The main issue you'll run into is if you want a GUI file manager. XFFM
is in my view unusuable (but then, I rate any GUI file manager on any
platform as "almost passable" at best). If you want Nautilus or
Konqueror you're going to find they pull in most of the libraries and
helper daemons you were trying to get rid of. As a happy user of the
traditional file manager "the shell" for 95% of my file management
tasks, this doesn't bother me one bit.

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Craig Ringer