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• Brent F

  

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  February 8, 2011 2:26 PM PST

  Well it looks like Squeeze 'The Directors Cut' has been released to the masses, I'm throwing it on the test box, with XFCE.

   

  I'm sure it'll be rock solid, I mean heck, it's Debian.

   

  Anyone else tried it?

   

  Brent

• biff baxter

  

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  February 9, 2011 7:20 PM PST

  Not since its gone final...I have built various things around squeeze in the last year, but now I need to take it for another drive :)
• Leenie Gilmore

  

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  February 17, 2011 1:06 PM PST

  I have been looking at Debian squeeze with lxde.
• Ron Gibbs

  

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  March 23, 2011 7:37 AM PDT

  I have it installed with LXDE, and it is very nice indeed. Pretty much trouble free.
• Leenie Gilmore

  

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  March 23, 2011 1:37 PM PDT

  did you find a download with only lxde or was it a package deal with other desktop environments? i need to look again.
• biff baxter

  

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  March 23, 2011 2:13 PM PDT

  Hey Leenie - you can use the minimal install ISO (netinstall if I recall) and choose LXDE or there is a 6 specific LXDE-XFCE iso that is available from the cdimage repositories to download (around 640MB)
• Ron Gibbs

  

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  March 23, 2011 3:30 PM PDT

  Leenie Gilmore said:
  did you find a download with only lxde or was it a package deal with other desktop environments? i need to look again.

  
  

  I did a "netinstall", and it installs the gnome desktop by default, so I installed LXDE, and removed the gnome deskstop from the installation, and it pulled most all th stuff I didnt want.

  
  

  They also have (or did have) and LXDE/XFCE soin that will give you the option of which desktop you want to install.

• Ron Gibbs

  

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  March 23, 2011 3:31 PM PDT

  I must be tired, lots of misspelled words. lol
• Leenie Gilmore

  

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  March 23, 2011 3:36 PM PDT

  thank you biff. going to look.
• Ron Gibbs

  

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  March 23, 2011 3:45 PM PDT

  Here is a link to the CD downloads for the 64 bit.
  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

   

  All desktops are there of the main 4, Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and LXDE

  
  This post was edited by Ron Gibbs at March 23, 2011 3:47 PM PDT
• Leenie Gilmore

  

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  March 23, 2011 5:55 PM PDT

  link seems to be broken. looking for 32 bit.
• Ron Gibbs

  

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  March 23, 2011 8:07 PM PDT

  Leenie Gilmore said:
  link seems to be broken. looking for 32 bit.

   

  Thais is the link for the 32 bit page.

  
  

  It looks like you will have to copy and paste the address in your browser, for some reason it wont link up, but the address was copied right from the page.

  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/
  

  
  This post was edited by Ron Gibbs at March 23, 2011 8:09 PM PDT
• Leenie Gilmore

  

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  March 24, 2011 5:47 AM PDT

  thank you, Ron
• Dimko Gurejki

  

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  July 21, 2012 11:15 PM PDT

  Sorry bad english .
  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso
  i install on netbook EEEPC 1005HA 1GB ram.
  install LXDE, RAM usage 70-80MB +WLAN, baterry work 4-5Hours ,
  
  on WATTOS R4 battery work 3Hours.
  on R5 2-2.30Hours ,
  on WinXP 1,30-2 Hours .
  
  debian is the best and fast for old computers ;)
  need NEW WattOS on debian only =)
  
• Ferre Franckx

  

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  September 17, 2012 10:38 PM PDT

  Installed a minimal Debian 6.0.5 yesterday on my test-box. Only OpenBox and Chromium on board, my version of ChromeOS so to speak :) It only has a RAM-usage of 25 Mb at idle !
• Ferre Franckx

  

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  September 25, 2012 4:37 AM PDT

  Did an install of Debian 7 Beta 2 with IceWM on the test-box. Slightly "heavier" (what's in a name) then Debian 6 (38 Mb vs 25 Mb) but feels snappier. All in all a very fast system this way :)
• biff baxter

  

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  October 5, 2012 6:18 PM PDT

  Hi Ferre - its fun to play with distros :) - I installed a super fast wattOS build using JWM but I am always trying to balance lightweight with usability for non-technical people and how quickly most can get things done :)