Written by turbolad the 2 Mar 11 at 15:07.

Lubuntu uses half as much memory (RAM) as Ubuntu. Lubuntu is designed to work better on older computers - it will also run faster than Ubuntu (and Xubuntu!) on newer computers.

I have Lubuntu on the netbook and it's much faster than Ubuntu Netbook Edition was. Also, the one bar at the bottom of the screen in Lubuntu is more user-friendly and saves screen space, instead of having 2 GNOME panels (1 at the top and 1 at the bottom of the screen).

Here's more about Lubuntu and using it on older computers:
http://www.osnews.com/story/24476/Lubuntu_Finally_a_Lightweight_Ubuntu_

Lubuntu uses half as much memory (RAM) as Ubuntu. Lubuntu is designed to work better on older computers - it will also run faster than Ubuntu (and Xubuntu!) on newer computers. I have Lubuntu on the netbook and it's much faster than Ubuntu Netbook Edition was. Also, the one bar at the bottom of the screen in Lubuntu is more user-friendly and saves screen space, instead of having 2 GNOME panels (1 at the top and 1 at the bottom of the screen). Here's more about Lubuntu and using it on older computers: http://www.osnews.com/story/24476/Lubuntu_Finally_a_Lightweight_Ubuntu_

Written by Felitaur the 21 Mar 11 at 01:28.

Design some other variant of Ubuntu, which should be based on known light weight windows managers, like Openbox, ffwm2, Awesome, WMaker, with number of application running by default maximally reduced. So it should be faster than any other variant of *buntu using X.

Design some other variant of Ubuntu, which should be based on known light weight windows managers, like Openbox, ffwm2, Awesome, WMaker, with number of application running by default maximally reduced. So it should be faster than any other variant of *buntu using X.

Written by Felitaur the 21 Mar 11 at 01:34.

It must be ubuntu edition, with tmux or screen as windows manager + framebuffer, such a system should work well on Pentium I or maybe even i486 based machines, but provide modern software for users of such machines.
Such system should be able to display pictures and video with framebuffer and provide many more of console software, since it would not include any graphical applications on the CD, exept ones, which can be rebuilt to use framebuffer

It must be ubuntu edition, with tmux or screen as windows manager + framebuffer, such a system should work well on Pentium I or maybe even i486 based machines, but provide modern software for users of such machines. Such system should be able to display pictures and video with framebuffer and provide many more of console software, since it would not include any graphical applications on the CD, exept ones, which can be rebuilt to use framebuffer