Musings of a Babylon Lurker » lightweight http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:18:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Bloated Linux http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2008/11/29/bloated-linux/ http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2008/11/29/bloated-linux/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:44:27 +0000 lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=197 I have been using the standard Ubuntu Linux with the GNOME interface for a while with my small eeeBox.

The Atom processor got exhausted rather fast just running a browser, chat client and satellite tracking program.

Switch the desktop from Gnome to XFce, a lightweight desktop environment, and bingo, things run faster and the processor does not run into the 100% barrier. Looks like I will configure the XFce a bit, but that is a small price to pay for some speed.

Of course – it does not look as sleek as the other desktop, but I want functionality, not eye candy.

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