Lubuntu on the Inspiron 1000

Time to dust off the trusty (and freaking old) Inspiron 1000...

Made the install on a 20 GB HDD, with 256 MB of RAM (the Inspiron has a Celeron @2.20 GHz).

It is barely usable (it took forever to install the updates right after the install), but I wanted to give it a shot, in order to get a taste of how Lubuntu performs and looks on my (really, really) ancient and under powered lappies.

Pros:

• Lightweight (Doh!)
• Looks rather nice
• Cursors are a piece of cake to configure like I want them
• Somehow easy to remap the CAPS LOCK key to CRTL
• Easy to configure in general

Cons:

• Windows are square, in the 4 corners

To Be Done:

• Setup global Emacs keybindings
• Remove the username from the login window