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Re: [school-discuss] Which is the fastest Desktop distro for schools?



On Thursday 04 November 2004 11:24, you wrote:
> You could also try Xfce.  It may be a little heavier than FVWM, but it is
> more GNOME/KDE-like and its goal is to be relatively light-weight and
> fast.

I long for XFCE (it does not compile on my system) but it will be second 
choice to IceWM.

> Also, running KDE apps will cause most of the KDE support apperatus to
> be loaded as well, which is neither light-weight nor particularly fast.
> GNOME apps might be a little better in this regard (but don't quote me
> on that or flame me, please, as I haven't actually measured it).
>
> If you are not familiar with LTSP, you might want to take a look at
> www.ltsp.org and http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/k12ltsp.html.

LTSP will be included. But, k12ltsp is on RedHat (AFAIK) & we are focusing on 
debian.

> -Don

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Thanks,
 Arjun