All of this can be done in any Xfce distro from the Settings menu, but Linux Lite has made it more convenient and reassuring for novice users. Newbies can simply check all the “Safe” options to keep the system clean and fast. This is a sweet little all-in-one-screen utility that does a little bit of housekeeping and customizing. After updating installed software, you can upgrade within a series with a great little Linux Lite application that changes repository settings as needed to the next point within a “series.” Each series is based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu and compare with point releases. Once installed (using the super-awesome Ubiquity installer that makes all the Ubuntu-based distros installable in minutes with wonderful simplicity), the first boot of Linux Lite offers this interactive step-by-step guide to getting started. It has some pretty special little features that are great for folks trying out Linux for the first time. It’s Xubuntu-based and designed to be even more novice-friendly (if that is even possible). So just for grins, I’m giving Linux Lite a try. It runs xubuntu-core like a dream though! Well-chosen lightweight applications (Geary and Midori instead of Thunderbird and Firefox, for example) and the very basic Xfce desktop with the wonderful Xubuntu default settings (but no compositing, not a bunch of daemons running in the background, etc) make this old beast race along as sweet as ever.īut I also have a laptop with 3 gigs of RAM and a dual-core processor and it’s 64-bit. With it’s very low resources, it doesn’t really run the full-blown version of Xubuntu as well as it used to, and when 32-bit support ends it’ll finally be time to retire the faithful old box. I take special delight in keeping this ancient Dell desktop running and out of the landfill. It’s not for beginners, probably not for technophobes either, but curiosity has got the better of me and I’ll at least experiment with the Live Xfce version, and if my hardware issue can be fixed on the old Dell, I’ll throw Void Linux on there and write about it here. So, naturally, I’ll have to try this thing out. It just sounds awesomely perfect for hopefully bringing my old “dead” relic back to life, if I can fix the hardware issue. ![]() It needs only 96 megabytes of RAM! Available in “flavors” from KDE and Gnome to LXDE, Xfce, LXQt, and even Enlightenment, Void Linux is a rolling-release distro that uses runit instead of systemd. Not a fork, not built or derived from any other Linux distro, Void is described as “the most BSD-like Linux distribution out there.” Users describe it as superduperultramega lightning fast on even ancient hardware. So what’s this new systemd-unencumbered distro? It’s a virtual unknown called Void Linux. ![]() Slackware and it’s derivatives remain systemd-free, as does PCLinuxOS and a shrinking number of others. So much stuff is dependent on systemd in Linux distros that have switched to it – including all the Big Ones like Debian, Ubuntu (and all it’s derivative distros like Xubu, Lubu, Kubu etc., Linux Mint), and Red Hat (Fedora and family). I know, I know, before you jump all over me for having such great reservations about systemd, it’s simply this: Systemd removes a lot of choice and control from the end-user, leaving it up to developers and maintainers. I might have switched permanently to Salix from Xubuntu if not for that, because of the systemd thing. Gnome stuff is unavailable in Slackware (and therefore unavailable in Salix). …That is, if you like and want Gnome stuff, like Geary, one of my e-mail favorite clients.
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