PCMan wrote:
Hello, I saw there was a thread discussing light desktop for debian in old mailing archives. Here I want to open this thread again because my friends and I have developed a new lightweight desktop environment which is really usable and suitable for older machines.
If your aim is to make a DE that is usable on older machines, then making it dependant on the latest packages in Sid seems counterproductive. I was going to try just PCmanFM, but it wants versions of packages that are newer than on my Sarge machine. I usually just use binary .debs, but I thought that I might try to compile the tarball. Even that wants a newer version of automake that is on my machine. If the software cant run on the *current* *stable* OS then are slower machines that are 7 to 8 years old with low memory and less disk space really likely to have the resources to run it?
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