* Yamaban
On Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40, Tomas Cech
wrote: work on E17 is still in progress but I believe that E17 is very well usable for everyday use already.
I'd like to make E17 available for openSUSE users through installer and on DVD. Unfortunately DVD is already more than full so to get something in means get something out at the same time.
There is one obvious choice - LXDE doesn't seem to be much alive.
Word of warning: Until you PROVE that E17 runs as fast and lean as LXDE on OLD (pentium1, 512mb) hardware, such a statement will get you scrores of enemies.
Nothing runs fast and lean on a Pentium 1, and even if you get LXDE running on it, it'll be useless since you cannot run any modern Browser, PDF viewer or Office Suite with reasonable speed on such an old piece of junk. This whole "lightweight" buzzword is nonsense anyway since you can likely make any of our DE's use as much memory as LXDE if you leave out enough functionality so that it matches what LXDE provides by default. After all, it uses the same libraries (currently glib/gtk2, in the future Qt4) and low-level infrastructure as the others.
This doesn't mean that packages would be dropped, it only means that packages won't be available on DVD and installation choice would be removed.
see above, and, even more ugly for your case: there is no "pattern" e17
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