LXDE or GNOME+OPENBOX?

[BlahBlah_X]

So I want to make the mini-cd edition as cool, lightweight, and small as possible (remember the 350mb rule).

So originally, I was thinking I would use GNOME with the Openbox window manager.

But recently I stumbled across LXDE. Read about it here http://lxde.sourceforge.net/ . It seems really promising, and I got to test it on the PUD and AUSTRUMI live cds. I really like it, and its quite light and small. So I thought that I would use LXDE but with Metacity. Or maybe Openbox.

Vote and post please!

[BlahBlah_X]

Well the LXDE is made up of two internal peices, any wm, and an externally developed file manager so the only peices that aren't updated are the panel and the session manager.

And the 350mb goal is so that it is small and so it fits on a mini cd

[merlwiz79]

It's a nice little DE, very small and you don't have many Preferences.
I have it installed on my Xubuntu Gutsy(added everything that Celena XFCE CE has)
I have these apps running on login, Restricted drivers manager, wicd and mintUpdate.
Here is what it looks like on my system using xfwm4 and lxpanel.
Click to Enlarge:

Why not show Compiz Fusion

I couldn't get Openbox to work in the past and don't have the space to try again.

[D-EJ915]

That looks pretty nice, LXDE + *Box gets my vote.

[merlwiz79]

That looks pretty nice, LXDE + *Box gets my vote.

It's not bad but this is XFCEs window manager called xfwm4 + LXDE.
Not sure that Openbox would be able to do this.

[maty1206]

I prefer Gnome + Openbox

[mintyred]

So I want to make the mini-cd edition as cool, lightweight, and small as possible (remember the 350mb rule).

So originally, I was thinking I would use GNOME with the Openbox window manager.

But recently I stumbled across LXDE. Read about it here http://lxde.sourceforge.net/ . It seems really promising, and I got to test it on the PUD and AUSTRUMI live cds. I really like it, and its quite light and small. So I thought that I would use LXDE but with Metacity. Or maybe Openbox.

Vote and post please!

I think you're already light years ahead of this, but though you may want to check them out to see if there's anything they're putting in that you can take advantage of.
http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/
I'm waiting on a hard drive for my old PII to give it a try. I'm definitely looking forward to trying your Mini-CD.

[punk]

Well, the Gnome + Metacity option is obviously much more refined and user friendly, but I don't think it's any good for old hardware, unless you are a genius who can somehow make Gnome run faster.

[visitor]

I voted for metacity+LXDE

though openbox+LXDE can get pretty light i was experimenting with LXDE on a Hardy heron install right now and it was using around 60-70 MiB for the desktop. which could probably be further refined to around 50-60 MiB which would be perfect for systems with 128 MiB of RAM.

You could take parts of xfce like its window manager and fuse it with LXDE too though i am not sure of the memory usage that could be cause by that.

[Jorpheus]

I'd really like to see this edition, and I hope it sees the light of day soon. Anyway, my vote is for LXDE+Openbox. Just to get away from the usual suspects (GNOME, KDE, XFCE,...). Wish you good luck in your effort!

Edit:
I've been experimenting with several small distros over the past months, and after all that, my opinion is reinforced. I've tried antiX, Puppy, TinyMe, and, most recently, I've modified Zenwalk Core to look the way I'd like it to - Openbox, some LXDE apps (PCMan FM, GPicView, lxappearance, lxpanel is also nice, but I prefer pypanel), and some GNOME, mostly libraries needed to compile this and that.

[coderneedsfood]

LXDE with OpenBox and Mint 5 RC1 .. works awesome and should be the basis for the mini edition

[Guest]

http://picasaweb.google.com/jed.adams/BloggerPictures/photo?authkey=hlzG9ZTPpTM#5238617548003101442 full size

[guest]

I voted twice: GNOME + Openbox and LXDE + OpenBox
GNOME + Openbox is easy and intuitive, but is very big

[Rob Loach]

My vote is definitely not for Openbox, but the Netbook Remix instead.

[snodgrss1984]

whats the point of this

[Zwopper]

whats the point of this

I want to make the mini-cd edition as cool, lightweight, and small as possible

[snodgrss1984]

that is pretty cool and maybe we will find tweaks for the original i really hope we have tools to defrag check disk etc and ext4 coming are way just to make it perfect on 7

[snodgrss1984]

i guess i could ask the question here what is better when building a system should i do a dual core pentium 4 system or a amd phenom 2 am2 am3 socket ones newer ones supposedly better

[snodgrss1984]

im trying to build something and i like both amd and intel but i cant figure out whats the best i have heard intels older may be faster but then again i have heard phenoms rule

[kneekoo]

I voted for LXDE, obviously. If it's about a lite version we can't use Gnome for it, although it would be nice to see how lite Gnome can get as well. Still... the Lite version should have LXDE. When can we expect some results? McLovin really worked on this one and maybe you can join effort to wrap it up and launch a beta/RC soon. At least launch it before all our older computer die, or else we would only have a faster Mint - not that it would be bad for us... but we have some oldies that would love a Mint breeze on them.