Re: net book (small) install advice

Thanks for the insight Rob.  I will look into crunchbag.

2011/2/12 Robert Smith <[email protected]>

> --- On Sat, 1/29/11, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Richard Reina <[email protected]>
> Subject: [LUNI] net book (small) install advice
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 9:38 PM
>
> I have an ASUS netbook with about a 4GB hard drive that is currently
> running Unbuntu-Gnome but is maxed out on space.  All I really use it for is
> to run procmail, mysql and some other perl scripts that manipulate pdfs and
> text files. I was wondering if someone could recommend an install for it
> that would take up a lot less space.  A graphical interface would be nice as
> I occasionally would like to look at pdfs with evince, but if I had to I
> could do with out it.  If anyone has any advise on small installs and can
> let me know I would really appreciate it.
>
>
> Have a great night.
>
> Richard
>
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> Sorry to be a Johnny-come-lately to this, but I've been housecleaning my
> email and just came across it. My first Asus Eee was the old 701 4G Surf,
> with a 4GB SSD. I currently have an Eee 900 with the 16GB SSD. I have run
> #!CrunchBang with great success on both of these machines. The version I
> used had OpenBox. I'd think the Xfce version would take up more space. The
> developer is putting out a new version, based on Debian rather than Ubuntu,
> but it has been slow in the making. I believe the last stable version was
> based on Ubuntu 9.10 which is still supported with security updates.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Rob
>
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