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	<title>Low Cost Computing &#187; Linux Distributions</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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=155</guid>
		<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>A Quick Look at Lubuntu 10.04</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/a-quick-look-at-lubuntu-10-04/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about spartan, Lubuntu keeps the desktop totally clean. Does minimal mean more memory? How far does Lubuntu take the minimalist approach? The only surprise during the install was that I was never prompted as to where to locate the boot record. It was no surprise that Lubuntu uses GRUB2, and that GRUB2 correctly recognized [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/updated-to-opensuse-11-3-kde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Desktops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=149</guid>
		<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>Selecting a version of Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/selecting-a-version-of-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/09/selecting-a-version-of-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Distro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was playing with PCLinuxOS LXDE this morning, I ran across this really cool site for choosing a Linux Distribution. The test is fast, and the results are interesting. When I selected RPM as the preferred package format, it recommended openSUSE 11.3 as a best fit. I took the test again, and changed the [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grub2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LXDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multi-boot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openSUSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xfce]]></category>

		<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>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/a-good-reason-to-use-pclinuxos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Desktops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BFS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NUMA]]></category>
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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>Does PCLinuxOS LXDE Take the Lightweight Title?</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/weighing-in-lxde/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/weighing-in-lxde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GNOME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grub2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LXDE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PCLinuxOS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After installing PCLinuxOS Xfce, I was ready for the GRUB configuration issues. One experiment, however, forced me to install it twice. Although similar to PCLinuxOS Xfce, PCLinuxOS LXDE also different. I am not just referring to the memory footprint. How does it compare to PCLinuxOS Xfce? On the first install, I let the installer configure [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exploring PCLinuxOS Xfce</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/exploring-pclinuxos-xfce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/exploring-pclinuxos-xfce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grub2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PCLinuxOS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xfce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the HP laptop used for this test only has a 30 gigabyte disk, I split the space used by Fedora 13 between PCLinuxOS Xfce and PCLinuxOS LXDE. With only 512 megabytes of memory, lighter weight desktops are a plus. Besides, this was a chance to compare Xfce and LXDE from one Linux community. This [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thoughts on Linux Mint 9</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/thoughts-on-linux-mint-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/thoughts-on-linux-mint-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Installation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Linux Mint 9 is my favorite Ubuntu derivative, but still is not my favorite Linux distro. OpenSuse still holds the number 1 spot, but Linux Mint is getting closer to being number 1. After all the problems with Fedora 13, it was a pleasure to install something that worked. Why is that only Linux Mint [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comments on Fedora 13</title>
		<link>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/comments-on-fedora-13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bargincomputing.com/2010/08/comments-on-fedora-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Installation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GNOME]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bargincomputing.com/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I installed Fedora 13 on Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th as unlucky day may be a myth, but my experience with Fedora 13 was not. The first problem ws the install DVD boot menu. If I touched any key, including the cursor keys, the boot menu would hang. The only option was to let [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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