LighterSpec

Revision 1 as of 2006-06-11 21:24:22

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Summary

Provide fluxbox and/or IceWM as alternate environments in Xubuntu, for hardware where even Xfce is too heavy.

Rationale

Xubuntu needs 128M of RAM to run comfortably. Other distros such as feather and puppy go much further running even in 32M, albeit with a reduced functionality environment.

Use cases

Flux would like to try out Ubuntu but the Desktop CD does not complete booting on his 64M box.

Ice has an LTSP setup which runs on Xubuntu. He'd like to add a few more clients but the server would only cope if he used a ligher WM instead of Xfce.

Jani is ashamed that there's no maintainable _and_ friendly linux distro he could offer to his friends who are still using Win98 and has to mumble 'you need to upgrade your hw if you want linux on it' when the subject is brought up.

Scope

Design

Implementation

  • Need to get IceWM and/or Fluxbox on the CD along with some core dependencies.
  • Need to see how to make an installer/desktopCD option to allow the user to chose these instead of Xfce
  • Get Ubuntu Lite involved

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

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