Fluxbuntu: User-friendly Featherweight Linux?
While Linux is praised for its ability to run on older hardware, modern distributions such as [K]Ubuntu and Fedora eat up lots of disk space, memory, and processing power. And, while there are many smaller distributions that are designed to run on antiquated machines, most of them require years of Linux experience, lest the user risk becoming bogged down in problems. Fluxbuntu's aim is to be a "lightweight, productive, agile, and efficient" operating system; this review takes a look at Fluxbuntu and whether it lives up to the challenge of creating a user-friendly experience on a tight resources budget.
Installation
Fluxbox, unlike Ubuntu, uses a text-based installation program that might scare away some users that haven't experienced a text-based install. That being said, it's really a simple, straight forward process, and it's necessary to keep resource requirements low. The entire install CD comes in at a slim 306MB, which makes it relatively practical for dial-up users to download (just over one day at 3.5KB/s, compared to 57 hours for a 700MB ISO).
The installation program will detect your hardware for you, ask how you want to partition your disks (or allow you to manually setup your partitions), configure your network, install all the components, and allow you to pick a username. If all goes well, the installation should be as simple as the graphical installations which require much more memory and processing power (not to mention download time) to run.
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