Wow, am I behind with the news. A couple years back I was on a lightweight distribution kick. I installed a number of distro’s and ended up stuck between Xubuntu and Crunchbang.

Xubuntu uses XFCE desktop environment.

Back then, Crunchbang was based on Ubuntu and used the Open Box Window Manager. What I found was that even though Crunchbang claimed lightweight, it was still running nearly all the same processes as Ubuntu. It quickly lost its status as a lightweight contender in my mind and I stopped using it. But Crunchbang has been been based on Debian for like 2 years now, so I guess it’s back on the list for me.

If you’re interested, TechRepublic has a fairly recent write-up of Xubuntu suggested opportunities.

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