It was time consuming to set up VNC on Debian. I was able to install the VNC server and access from my WinXP computer. I was able to create a shell to start VNC during the boot but it was ignoring the startup parameters.
It is taking to much time with Debian so I will switch to Xubuntu and hope things will be easier…
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Xfce is definitely light so it works fine on my old laptop. I found the menus a little disorganized and incomplete. There some items like “Bc” and “Dc” that would have no meaning for most of the people. I could not find a graphical package manager/installer. I thought about give up Xfce for GNOME or KDE but… I will keep it.
A correction here…the lack of a graphical package manager/installer is not related to Xfce (graphical desktop) but to Debian itself. Debian documentation has package related information well explained.
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The machine I will use is an old Toshiba laptop with only 256MB of memory.
First I thought about using Ubuntu because it recognized my wireless card from my other Dell computer. Ubuntu did not recognize the network card on my Toshiba and was very slow.
Debian/GNOME was faster so I decided to go with Debian but Xfce as the graphical desktop because I want to try it.
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