From performance point of view, these days, Openbox is my favorite desktop environment. I found it actually to be more efficient and less resource consuming than either LXDE or XFCE and works very efficiently on low powered P4 machines. Perhaps the most famous distros with Openbox DE are Archbang and Crunchbang. Recently, SparkyLinux came up with their version of Openbox spin. In this article, I review SparkyLinux 2.1 "Ultra" Openbox as well as do a brief comparison with Archbang and Crunchbang.
This assessment is done entirely by me. My assessment is based on installation
on Asus K54C laptop with 2.2 Ghz Core i3 processor and 2 GB RAM and
experience of using it for the last 3 days. I downloaded the 32-bit
ISO (1.4 GB in size) for this testing. Sparkylinux 2.1 “Ultra”
has an Openbox DE with Linux kernel 3.2.0. PCManFM 0.9.10 is the
default file browser.
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