[Rule] Is Gnome/KDE the greatest bloat?

C David Rigby c.david.rigby at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 19:24:58 EEST 2007


There is also fluxbuntu (http://fluxbuntu.org/, but site down for
migration). I took a quick look at the live CD. Not enough to really get a
feel for it, but it seems to warrant further investigation. Like
Ubuntu-lite, it seems to be having the usual "growing pains" in terms of a
stable web presence.

On 9/15/07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/09/2007, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> > This is not to dismiss your suggestions that we consider Ubuntu: I've
> > already said several times that all the recent traffic on this list
> > seems to be equivalent to some form of "we have to merge with
> > Ubuntu-lite or simply take that project and revive it if its authors
> > are gone"
>
> Its original creators seem to have moved on, due to moving abroad,
> other commitments and so on, but there is a new maintainer, Shae
> Smittel, who is doing some sterling work. He has a testing version of
> the baseline distro now, derived from the current release of Ubuntu,
> and he's just got a GPG-signed repository online on the net.
>
> It's still lacking a website, alas, & due to spam, Shae's shut down
> the original mailing list & started a new one - something I don't
> personally agree with, but hey.
>
> More help would, I'm sure, be much appreciated, though.
>
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