[ale] are there messages this afternoon?

[Preston Boyington]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Preston Boyington
> <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chuck Payne wrote:
>>> Ron,
>>>
>>> I been getting yours.
>> and I've been sulking because you didn't like LXDE...
> 
> L(ousy)X(windows)D(on't)E(xecute)
> 
> :-)

MEANY!!!

> I put LXDE on my netbook. I did notice the lightweight nature of it as
> the system has only 512 MB RAM. So then I plopped puppy on it. Super
> small and quite fast. Now I'm playing with DSL (Damn small Linux) on
> it.

I keep BoxPup on a USB stick (Openbox + Puppy).  great little setup.

I tend to stay away from the larger desktops like GNOME and KDE.  even 
XFCE seems to be bulkier now that it is basically "GNOME Lite".