Note to Debian users: you may have to replace the thunderbird and sunbird apps with the Debian versions.
If you like GNOME, but also want a tiny, fast, and functional enviroment, this guide is for you! Just install Ubuntu alternate (or any Debian-based textmode Linux) and run after installation:
sudo aptitude install xorg menu gnome-core gdm gcalctool gnome-utils epiphany epiphany-extensions eog evince gimp abiword gnumeric thunderbird sunbird synaptic alacarte totem rhythmbox gnome-games gtk2-engines
This should give you a light-weight, yet working desktop.
The some of the apps are:
- Epiphany browser
- Thunderbird E-mail
- Sunbird calendar
- GIMP image editor
- Eye of Gnome image viewer
- Evince PDF reader
- gedit text editor
- gcalctool calculator
- Nautilus file manager
- Totem and Rhythmbox media players
- AbiWord word processor
- Gnumeric spreadsheet
- and the GNOME games
