bloat free xfce distro?

somethin2cool at yahoo.com somethin2cool at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 25 11:50:54 CEST 2007


matt vattes wrote:
> yes i was considering that but Xubuntu is pretty app-bloated IMO so my 
> idea was bloat-free out of the box with just a handful of applications 
> and let users add applications as they wish =)
> 
> On 4/24/07, *Jim Campbell* <jwcampbell at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jwcampbell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 4/24/07, *matt vattes* <drbearded at gmail.com
>     <mailto:drbearded at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello, I had thought of a live distro idea it would be something
>         like this:
> 
>         Debian based
>         Xfce
>         Firefox
>         and all of CLI tools
>         Hard disk installer
> 
>         is there a distro like that already around? if not would you
>         support development of such a Distribution?
> 
>         ~Matt
> 
> 
>     Why not just use Debian with Xfce on top, or do a base install of
>     Xubuntu?  Why reinvent the wheel?
> 
>     Jim
>      
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That's a terrible idea. Clearly, Matt's objective is to save system 
resources. Reinventing the wheel is how we learn




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