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Colin Walters Talks About Debian On The Desktop

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 18, 2002 @05:57AM from the apt-get-comfortable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com caught up with Colin Walters of the Debian Desktop subproject. Launched in late October, the project aims to simplify Desktop Linux. Walters' discusses the project goal to offer 'Software which Just Works' for home and office, new user and expert ... "

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Re:Linux question by Craig+Ringer · 2002-12-18 14:47 · Score: 2, Interesting

I've got 486 thin clients running Debian with IceWM, using ROX as a GUI file manager. Of course, they also run OpenOffice and Mozilla :-) but I expect you wouldn't be using those. The 486s network boot off a read-only NFS root, then fire up X and do an -query to the XDMCP server (running gdm) so all they're really running is XFree86 4.