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I am currently dual booting Ubuntu & Windows ( wich is kinda pointless) since I hardly ever boot windows any more...Any way, I'm on the search for a third. Looking ...
  1. 04-28-2009 #1
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    I am currently dual booting Ubuntu & Windows ( wich is kinda pointless) since I hardly ever boot windows any more...Any way, I'm on the search for a third. Looking for a lightweight distro for a x86 pentium 4 system that will run compiz, Just looking for a few sugestions.
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    Howdy and Welcome Frylock. What are you lookig for. Another DEB or maybe RPM Based distro?
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    You could look through the below link I guess

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    I sorta think anything running compiz is inherently not lightweight. The window manager is a big part of the lightweight distro environment.
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    Thanx...glad to be here. Well I'm not totally sure on the diff between debian or rpm. How is "pclinux"?, or mayby puppypc? I have ran puppy before and I actually liked it, ran smooth as ice. will puppy run compiz?
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    Ok, I have the tipsy puppy distro...has nvidia and cf installed, initially, the driver is not in use. supposed to run (nvidia-config) did that, restarted x...but xwin will not start up untill i run xorgwizard. Than of course the xorg is written to defaults. Also no sound and emerald is there, can import a theme, but it will not change the theme.Any ideas on any of this would be great.
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