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	<title>Low Cost Computing &#187; Linux Desktops</title>
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		<title>Linux Mint 9 Xfce or LXDE?</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/linux-mint-9-xfce-or-lxde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another round in the battle between Xfce and LXDE. This time the distro is Linux Mint 9. So far, the Xfce desktop has lost two rounds in a matches with LXDE on the same distro. It has lost both the free memory battle and the quality of distribution battle. On this last round, who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated to openSUSE 11.3 KDE</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/updated-to-opensuse-11-3-kde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to switch to LXDE on the Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, but clicked the update option in a state of exhaustion. The result was a clean update for openSUSE 11.2 to openSUSE 11.3, but I still have the KDE desktop. Do I restart with a fresh install to get the  LXDE desktop, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Comparison of LXDE and Xfce on openSUSE 11.3</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/a-comparison-of-lxde-and-xfce-on-opensuse-11-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/a-comparison-of-lxde-and-xfce-on-opensuse-11-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Desktops]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Instead of writing two separate posts, I am consolidating my notes into a single post. Besides, the install is identical, as it is just a matter of desktop selection during the install process. Testing various distributions on a multi-boot machine has its problems, and there are always a few gotchas with every distribution. If every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Reason to Use PCLinuxOS 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/a-good-reason-to-use-pclinuxos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The search for the perfect kernel scheduler is like searching for the Holy Grail. Linux 2.6 started with the O(1) scheduler, which solved a lot of issues for real-time processes. However, it didn&#8217;t scale to large NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machines. The Linux kernel can scale to 4096 processors. Not all the processors have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>openSUSE 11.1</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/06/opensuse-111/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/06/opensuse-111/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put off upgrading my primary laptop, until yesterday. I finally upgraded to openSUSE 11.1. It is a triple-booted machine, so the upgrade include installing Simply Mephis 8.0 and Ubuntu 8.10. I really wanted to install Debian 5.0, Mandriva 2009, and openSUSE, but had a few problems. I did discover a new trick. On ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knoppix 6.0</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/knoppix-60/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/knoppix-60/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=37</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Knoppix is Live CD, and they were one of the firt to produce a Live CD. I have use Knoppix in the past as a quick way to demonstrate Linux. My initial reaction to version 6.0 was &#8220;how far they have fallen.&#8221; The automatic boot into Adriane with no instructions on how to boot straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Window Manager versus Graphical Desktop</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/window-manager-versus-graphical-desktop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/window-manager-versus-graphical-desktop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Desktops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desktop environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Linux / UNIX systems are based around the X Window System. To avoid confustion, we need to clear distinquish between login managers, window managers, and graphical desktops. Each plays a role in creating the desktop environment. While they may be the same, I separate login managers from windows managers. Login Managers You don&#8217;t need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xfce versus LXDE</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/xfce-versus-lxde/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/xfce-versus-lxde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=27</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who is the lightest of the lightweight desktops? Is there enough difference to be worth the switch? What are the pros and cons of having multiple choices in desktops? I installed Xubuntu on a Micro TransPort ZX  with 256 megabytes of memory. As the name sort of implies, Xfce is the desktop for Xubuntu. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing a Desktop</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/choosing-a-desktop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2009/03/choosing-a-desktop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Desktops]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Linux doesn&#8217;t give you one graphical desktop, it gives you a choice between a lot of different graphcal desktops. Of course, you can run Linux in a pure text mode, which is fine for servers, but not for a workstation. The top two graphical desktops are KDE and Gnome. For systems with only 256 megabytes [...]]]></description>
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