[clue-tech] LXDE -- New Desktop for Old/Slow Machines

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:18:18 -0600
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > Just caught a link to an article about LXDE, the Lightweight X11
> > Desktop Environment. Check out the System Requirements here:
> > http://lxde.org/about.html
> 
> Heh, "rund well even on older machines produced in 1999".
> 
> So I'm thinking that the only thing I need X for is a web browser.  So 
> why do they bother with all this desktop stuff?  If they made a 
> lightweight browser they'd have it made.

Well, you could just surf using Lynx.

> Oh, OK.  I guess I need something to play video.  I'd be OK with a text 
> mode PDF reader but I guess that might be better in X too.

IIRC, mplayer and Xine will both use hardware drivers, if they're there,
to play movies directly on your monitor, no X needed.

jed