Netbook Oriented Linux Distributions Accessibility

Krishnakant Mane krmane at gmail.com
Sat May 10 03:51:18 UTC 2014


Gnome-shell is not a distribution,
But what I ment is use any suitable distro which comes by default with 
gnome-shell.
Such as Ubuntu-gnome or sonar.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Saturday 10 May 2014 07:51 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Gnome Shell is not a Linux distribution. It's a graphical desktop or a 
> graphical user interface running on the Linux kernel. It's what you 
> use to launch and manage and jump between your graphical applications. 
> As almost always, you can find out more with a web search, such as the 
> wikipedia article for Gnome Shell at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Shell
>
> Different distributions tend to select a graphical desktop. For 
> example, Ubuntu uses Unity, Gubuntu uses Gnome Shell, Kubuntu uses KDE 
> and so on. You can uninstall the desktop that comes with your 
> distribution and install another one, but I've always just gone with 
> the desktop that comes with the distribution I've selected, or the 
> reverse. For example, I've just used Unity when running Ubuntu or 
> Gnome Shell when running Fedora.
>
> On 05/09/2014 07:22 AM, Bhavya shah wrote:
>> Hi.
>> What is GNome Shell? Is it a Linux distro? Where can I download it from?
>> By the way my Netbook has only 1 gb RAM and that is the maximum limit
>> of expansion.
>> I would appreciate any assistance.
>> I have found out that the LXDE environment is the lightest and
>> quickest? What is the accessibility of LXDE?
>> Iwould appreciate any assistance.
>>
>> On 5/9/14, Krishnakant Mane <krmane at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I read this message so late.
>>> My firm advice is to go for Gnome shell 3.10 or so.
>>> it is really fast, provided you have around 2 gb ram.
>>> happy hacking.
>>> Krishnakant.
>>> On Wednesday 07 May 2014 06:53 PM, Bhavya shah wrote:
>>>> Dear all.
>>>> I require information about the accessibility of netbook oriented
>>>> Linux distributions.
>>>> Currently, I use Windows 7 Starter but it is considerably slow.
>>>> Therefore I would like to switch to Linux
>>>> Please tell me if any of you use a Linux distribution for netbooks.
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>
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