XFCE

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I've seen people say that XFCE runs great on their older hardware (think under 300mhz x86 cpu, 64mb of ram) and was wondering if anyone here has looked into putting together an XAP for it.

My machine doesn't use XAPs, and has a 2.6 kernel, but if I get around to figuring out all the debian lenny packages needed for mine, it may be a good package list to start with for pulling debian etch packages to build an XAP compatible with your machines.

I'm thinking of adding new environment variables for a /test folder and putting all the package files under it (/test/lib /test/bin and so on)

If anyone is interested I will make an effort to track all packages I end up needing.

It won't be for a few days, I was recently informed by the distributor of my machine that my wifi problems indicate a bad wifi card and they will be replacing my machine for me. I will stop by their office this week for the exchange, then I will probably start on this XFCE stuff right after.

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http://mp4nation.net/blog/2009/09/cubes-h800-spotted-in-the-wild-budget-linux-mid/

This device has the same chip as mine and appears (based on the mouse icon) to be running some sort of XFCE.

I'm going to try at least updating libc6 before I exchange this unit, just to make sure it works, since some apps complain about my old libc6. If I get ambitious I might try to install the needed components for APT, there isn't that many. Anybody know if that would work? I think this distro is just an embedded system made using pdaxrom (based on a folder name and some CVS tag files not removed from the fielsystem) and not debian, but would installing apt and all its dependencies work on a typical linux desktop system?

[FezzFest]

It's not the same SoC. Although it's also an Ingenic one.

XFCE will be painfully slow on our LLL's. Don't try APT within 3MX, it will downgrade a lot of packages and I can garantuee you it will break the system. If you want to try it out, install one of the Debian Etch recovery image's and experiment with that.

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Actually the LLL I had before did have the same chip, it was a 4750. The one I have now is a 4740. They both run pretty much the same, but the VPC based on the 4750 uses a different wireless card which seems to have flakey drivers (that was why mine was replaced by Fidelity, the company that sells the VPC in Canada)

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For what it's worth I gave up on XFCE and just stuck with a JWM bar autohiding at the bottom with the default OS's bar(QPE/OPIE, not GPE like the rest of the LLLs)
The bar from QPE doesn't have a system tray, so I don't get a pidgin icon when i close the contact list and I don't get the SCIM options. Because of this I use JWM's bar too (If i prevent QPE from starting at boot certain QPE based apps will crash JWM).

My wife is Korean and I had wondered about getting Korean input working, but the language options only have English, French and Chinese. Because of this I had removed SCIM from the startup script on my old LLL before replace it due to bad wireless. I forgot to remove it from my new one and I noticed SCIM's icon in JWM's system tray when I opened Pidgin. I went into the SCIM options and found that it had EVERY language pack installed. I turned off all except Korean and downloaded the Batang font for Linux somewhere. I did font recache, rebooted and set that as Pidgin's default font and tada I can type in Korean on my $50 linux laptop.