The fuss over my post regarding Xubuntu seems to have diminished, so I’ll put the issue to rest after one last note. (Digg, DistroWatch Weekly, the front page of WordPress.com and jakilinux all seemed to take interest — more than 1,000 hits in one day on that post alone, which is about 100 times what I usually draw. 🙄 )

I appreciate the comments and replies, and I think, for the most part, we’re all on the same page. Xubuntu may have started out as an option for older hardware (and by that I mean sub-1Ghz), but there are better options out there now. SLAX, SaxenOS, DSL, Puppy, Zenwalk, KateOS, Fluxbuntu — heck, even minimized Debian, Arch, Ubuntu or Gentoo installations — can better suit outdated hardware than a pure Xubuntu environment.

But please don’t take that to mean I don’t like Xubuntu. Quite to the contrary: I love it. I think it’s sassy and smart and a great alternative to K/Ubuntu, and anyone fond of XFCE should give it a whirl. I prefer it over Gnome just for usability, and over Kubuntu … because I just don’t dig KDE. If I had a machine that ran faster than 1.4Ghz, I would pick Xubuntu over anything.

But I don’t. So when the mailing list debates if Beryl should be enabled by default or picks Thunderbird over a much lighter alternative (or for that matter, if the Applications button should be renamed to something else … 🙄 ), then I doubt its viability on machines that I use daily.

I like it. I’d use it. But I don’t recommend it to the Pentium III crowd any longer. It’s not what it used to be.

Enough said. Let’s move on. And thanks again for reading.