[nylug-talk] distro recommendations (cjk input and other concerns)

[Scott Robbins]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:34:27PM -0500, Allen Shaw wrote:
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> Kevin Mark wrote:
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> >On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:28:33AM +0000, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
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> >>Might could also be that all of the libraries Ubuntu keeps handy for
> >>Gnome and KDE requests could also be dogging things down, even while
> >>using a lighter display manager.  




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> Indeed, this is xubuntu I'm talking about. Specifically intended to get 
> snappier performance out of slower hardware, defaults to xfce but uses some 
> gnome libraries. From what I've heard, this setup should be -- and could be -- 
> responding better than it is. Unfortunately, with my limited skills (and 
> limited time commitment to improve them) probabaly the best I can do is throw 
> hardware at it.
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I don't know how much effort you want to put into a distro hunt, but
Vector, based on Slackware, supposedly does pretty well on less
hardware.  I haven't used it on old hardware, but it's a pretty
reasonable install if you're even the least bit used to Slackware. 

As for CJK input, the one caveat is that you should choose gimp during
the choice of packages during installation.  

Then, you can, following that page of mine I mentioned, easily install
anthy, scim and scim-anthy from source.  Grab the Japanese fonts I
mention on the page and you're set. 


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