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Over the past year or two I’ve been drifting away from Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva towards distros derived from Slackware for desktop use. The reason is simple: these distributions tend to have the best performance I’ve found, particularly on older or limited hardware. Slackware itself lacks some graphical tools and user friendly features that more popular distros have but is outstanding in terms of stability and reliability. A number of Slackware derived distros retain those benefits while offering the ease of use many of us have come to expect. AliXe is such a distro, albeit one designed to be small and compact, making it particularly suitable for older hardware. True to it’s Canadian heritage, AliXe also offers full support for both French and English despite it’s small size.
I made a comment at O'Reillynet, asking Caitlyn if she had considered using Xfce in Debian. I found it to be as fast as Slackware running Xfce -- and faster than Wolvix, but without as many nice tools as most Xfce-based distros (Vector, Zenwalk).
I still have a laptop running the Xfce install of Debian, but it zips quite a bit faster with Damn Small Linux (233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM requires a bit more care).
The main problem with Debian and Xfce is that many of the tools of the standard Debian install are missing (no Synaptic, no Update Manager). And if you leave the KDE apps off of Slackware and just install Xfce, you are left without even an office suite. So that provides a huge opening for Xfce-based distributions like the one Caitlyn is reviewing here.
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I still have a laptop running the Xfce install of Debian, but it zips quite a bit faster with Damn Small Linux (233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM requires a bit more care).
The main problem with Debian and Xfce is that many of the tools of the standard Debian install are missing (no Synaptic, no Update Manager). And if you leave the KDE apps off of Slackware and just install Xfce, you are left without even an office suite. So that provides a huge opening for Xfce-based distributions like the one Caitlyn is reviewing here.