This is why I use Ubuntu with Gnome, than Xubuntu with XFCE.. XFCE is for low memory machines, such as old Pentium 2's.. For instance I just bought memory and a new drive for an old laptop that I j...
This is why I use Ubuntu with Gnome, than Xubuntu with XFCE.. XFCE is for low memory machines, such as old Pentium 2's.. For instance I just bought memory and a new drive for an old laptop that I just can't throw away, I may try to get Xubuntu running on it, if not that, I'll use Puppy Linux which can work on at least 32 megs.. BTW, A C64 could work on 64K and you can do quite a lot on an Amiga with only 3 megs.. Memory usage is more a function of hardware requirements and whether applications are written to work optimally in assembly language or if they are written in C.. Newer programs tend to load a lot of uneeded libraries and use complex libraries and functions when it's not really needed.. The older computer operating systems get the more bloated they become, so as to give people the best experience with their hardware.. Since Amigas used only one kind of Hardware and was optimized to work in less memory, it runs faster (fewer instructions) and requires much less memory than most common Intel based operating systems now. So it's every advantage to permit the opening of sources so as to give people a choice over OS's in the interest of keeping older hardware than recycling it, which just destroys value than recycling it. You've heard the phrase "reuse then recycle". Ditto.. So if you have an old machine, don't throw it out, load some version of linux onto it, and reuse it.. Or keep the existing OS on it, give it to someone who needs it, but don't throw it away.
Anyhow, XFCE with Ubuntu, or Xubuntu is the lowest memory footprint of any Ubuntu.. Kubuntu, which I don't demonstrate, uses the KDE windowing interface but underneath it is Linux and it maintains the same Ubuntu distribution of Debian (the class of Linux that Ubuntu is based on). So there is Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, which uses Gnome, KDE or XFCE, respectively. There is also another version of Ubuntu called Linux Mint that is designed to be multimedia ready out of box. Also gOS is a mobile ready distribution derived from Ubuntu.
This video just shows how to manage deskbars in XFCE (Xubuntu 8.10) and Gnome (Ubuntu 8.10) at the same time by using Sun Virtualbox OSE to run Xubuntu in a virtual machine. I captured this video on my Pentiumd D 2.8Ghz .. IF you have a Core2Duo, you lucky duck..
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Simple trick by the way, in GNOME, you can hold down shift while moving items in panels and it will force all the other unlocked items in it's way with it.
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#!usr/bin/sh
xfce4-panel
I set that to be executed as a program and I got my panel back