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Firstly, I kept having issues with the package manager. Unfortunately, I ran into a few annoying issues. Using the system is very straightforward, with the layout being relatively close to Ubuntu's GNOME environment. (full image size: 8.5kB, screen resolution: 471x258 pixels) From the splash screen to the desktop, which was nicely arranged and used lovely looking icons, it felt like a classy desktop. I know people hate it when reviewers discuss looks, but it really did look good.
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Some time later I had a full Xubuntu desktop installed and was ready to boot into it for the first time.
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I downloaded the Xubuntu alternate install CD for i386 architecture and completed an installation using ext3 as the default file system. Not the most powerful machine in the world these days, but it seemed suitable for this task.įirst comes Xubuntu. I got my hands on an old Dell Dimension 4500 desktop machine, with an Intel 2 GHz processor and 384 MB of memory. Xubuntu tended to include much of the GNOME desktop applications and services to provide richer functionality, at the cost of system resources. I've played with most of the Xubuntu releases which have come out, but haven't found them as lightweight as I had hoped. Debian, on the other hand, is based on, well, itself and offers a multitude of desktop offerings, one of which is Xfce. They also include much of the functionality that its larger parent offers. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources." Xubuntu is based on Ubuntu, but instead of providing a GNOME desktop, they provide Xfce. Creator Olivier Fourdan writes: " Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Unlike GNOME however, its focus is on being lightweight. Xfce is a desktop environment built using the GTK+ graphical libraries, similar to GNOME. Instead of a review of what everyone already knows, this week I thought we'd take a look at how the newly released Xubuntu 9.04 compares to Debian Lenny with an Xfce desktop. Yes, it's Ubuntu release week and yes, we'll be looking at Ubuntu for our feature article. Listen to the Podcast edition of this week's DistroWatch Weekly in OGG (25MB) and MP3 (25MB) formats
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Of course that's not the only thing that happened this past week - Debian has announced the availability of Lenny kernels with no closed-source firmware, the Fedora community has received up-to-date images of version 10, and the openSUSE online build service looks set to receive support for a Git version control backend, thanks to a Google Summer of Code project. We also post links to an interview with Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, while Tux Radar takes a look at the last ten releases of the world's most popular desktop Linux distro. How well will the latest version be received? And does the success of Ubuntu mean, as some are beginning to wonder, that Debian GNU/Linux is no longer relevant? This week's feature article provides some answers in an interesting comparison between Xubuntu 9.04 and Debian 5.0.1 with Xfce to see how well each performs. Reviews have started pouring in and users are busy upgrading. Welcome to the 300th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Naturally, the biggest news event of the week was the release of Ubuntu's latest version - 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.
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