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Building a highly functional desktop with lightweight software

03/15/2008  
Relevance: 6.36
When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can imagine how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it's quite irritating. I didn't want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu because the mini PC doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of data that would have taken a long time to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience.
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Windows 7: Microsoft's Linux killer?

11/02/2008  
Relevance: 6.20
Linux has been making inroads into PC sales lately because it runs so well on lightweight netbooks with limited RAM and processing power. Windows 7, though, appears to run well on lightweight hardware as well, which could mean that it's Microsoft's Linux killer. At the recent PDC, where Windows 7 was unveiled, Windows and Windows Live senior vice president Steve Sinofsky claimed that Windows 7 used less than half of the 1 GB of RAM on his Lenovo S10 netbook. Making the new operating system lightweight has clearly been Microsoft's goal. In addition to light RAM use, Windows also strips out a variety of applications, including Windows Mail, among others.
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Lightweight fnord serves HTTP admirably

10/31/2006  
Relevance: 5.94
I was looking for a lightweight Web server to run on my ARM-based Linksys NSLU2 network storage device in order to share a few custom packages I've built for Debian and Arch Linux among the systems on my home network. After playing around with Apache, LightTPD, and thttpd, I tried fnord and never looked back.
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LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment for Ubuntu

07/06/2008  
Relevance: 5.88
LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It’s not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don’t tightly integrate every component.
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Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment

02/21/2007  
Relevance: 5.52
For years, the lightweight Xfce has been a popular desktop environment for Linux distributions running on older hardware, thanks to its lower demand on resources as compared to KDE and GNOME; it's an ideal desktop for machines with less than 256MB of memory. Until recently, however, using Xfce was a little laborious, but with its latest release last month, Xfce is a much more usable desktop environment.
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Chyrp: A lightweight tool for simple blogging

02/05/2008  
Relevance: 5.50
High-end open source blogging applications may have all the features you can think of, but you may not need all that. For simple blogs, a lightweight alternative like Chyrp is worth a closer look. Chyrp runs on the PHP/MySQL stack, has a clean interface sprinkled with AJAX, and administration features that you can learn without resorting to a manual (in fact, there is no manual to speak of).
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The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment: A return to basics

12/05/2007  
Relevance: 5.48
The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) resembles a classic Unix project -- it's partly constructed out of pre-existing programs, its emphasis is on speed, and its configuration requires taking time in a text editor. Even the relatively low quality of fonts on the desktop makes it feel like a vintage program. The result is a desktop environment that is short on innovation, but performs well on low-end machines, and blazingly fast on recent ones.
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Lightweight, Linux-compatible browser evolves

10/17/2008  
Relevance: 5.46
The eight-year-old Dillo project has released version 2.0 of its Linux-compatible, ultra-lightweight HTML browser for embedded systems, antiquated PCs, and other low-powered devices. Dillo 2 adds support for anti-aliased text, multiple languages, and tabbed browsing, while improving table rendering and lowering memory usage, says the project.
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Sun stellt Lightweight UI Toolkit unter die GPL

08/19/2008  
Relevance: 5.39
Drei Monate nach der Ankündigung auf der Hausmesse Java One hat Sun Microsystems den Worten Taten folgen lassen und das Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) unter GPLv2 veröffentlicht. Das Toolkit ist für Java-ME-Anwendungen gedacht. Der User-Interface-Bausatz hat in den drei Monaten Wartezeit auf die Open-Source-Ausgabe laut Sun-Technologe Terence Barr einen Run erlebt.
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CLI Magic: Lightweight Conky is a system monitor powerhouse

09/18/2006  
Relevance: 5.37
Conky is a lightweight system monitor that provides essential information in an easy-to-understand, highly customizable interface. The software is a fork of TORSMO, which is no longer maintained. Conky monitors your CPU usage, running processes, memory, and swap usage, and other system information, and displays the information as text or as a graph.
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