beanzontoast
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Puppy and DSL are both very good - I prefer Puppy, but that's just because I've watched it grow up!
Ubuntu/Linux Top Tips
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Puppy and DSL are both very good - I prefer Puppy, but that's just because I've watched it grow up!
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
xactly what I am looking for. many thanks
Amheirchion
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Another alternative to Xubuntu and possibly Lubunto is Mint 9 xfce it's based off Ubuntu and if memory serves lighter and just as easy to use. They also do a Fluxbox flavour which should be nice and lightweight.
If you'd said you were willing to explore more, I would have pointed you at Crunchbang, which is one of my personal favourites, and lovely and light weight, but as the current release is still beta iirc, and it requires a bit more confidence with the command line, it probably won't be right for you. Mint is pick up and go though, in the same way Ubuntu is.
If you'd said you were willing to explore more, I would have pointed you at Crunchbang, which is one of my personal favourites, and lovely and light weight, but as the current release is still beta iirc, and it requires a bit more confidence with the command line, it probably won't be right for you. Mint is pick up and go though, in the same way Ubuntu is.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I've just found DistroWatch - blimey, there's no end to it!
Surely it is a waste of effort having so many different but similar projects on the go at once? I can see why there should be several, maybe even 10 or 20, but many hundreds! There must be an awful lot of work being duplicated, software wheels re-invented.
I suppose, looking at it in evolutionary terms, the strong will survive and the weak will falter but I certainly don't have time to try out more than a handful of different distros. I'll just choose a few variants of the most popular ones on the assumption that they became popular for a good reason!
Surely it is a waste of effort having so many different but similar projects on the go at once? I can see why there should be several, maybe even 10 or 20, but many hundreds! There must be an awful lot of work being duplicated, software wheels re-invented.
I suppose, looking at it in evolutionary terms, the strong will survive and the weak will falter but I certainly don't have time to try out more than a handful of different distros. I'll just choose a few variants of the most popular ones on the assumption that they became popular for a good reason!
Amheirchion
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- Northampton
It's not so much duplication, a lot of the times it's just different packages put together in different ways.
Take Debian for example, from there you get many other 'versions' of it, Ubuntu being one of them.
Ubuntu take the Debian packages, put them together, and release them as a distro, offering community support, often easier ways of doing things (this depends who you speak to) and a nice purple package. Mint then come along and feel Ubuntu can be improved upon, so they repackage bits, fiddle with other bits, offer different menu set-ups. Crunchbang like the ease of use of a Debian system, so originally used Ubuntu as their base but stripped it down and made it light weight, offering a different window manager and a different way of doing things.
Most of them however also feed changes back up-stream, so as they make changes, fix bugs, code new tools, these can end up in Debian as improvements to the base system, and back and forth.
The diversity means that there is generally a system for everyone, from the hardcore Linux From Scratch, to Gentoo, to Arch, to Debian, to the ease of use of Ubuntu.
Take Debian for example, from there you get many other 'versions' of it, Ubuntu being one of them.
Ubuntu take the Debian packages, put them together, and release them as a distro, offering community support, often easier ways of doing things (this depends who you speak to) and a nice purple package. Mint then come along and feel Ubuntu can be improved upon, so they repackage bits, fiddle with other bits, offer different menu set-ups. Crunchbang like the ease of use of a Debian system, so originally used Ubuntu as their base but stripped it down and made it light weight, offering a different window manager and a different way of doing things.
Most of them however also feed changes back up-stream, so as they make changes, fix bugs, code new tools, these can end up in Debian as improvements to the base system, and back and forth.
The diversity means that there is generally a system for everyone, from the hardcore Linux From Scratch, to Gentoo, to Arch, to Debian, to the ease of use of Ubuntu.
Amheirchion
Active Member
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- Northampton
I have a new top-tip!
Unless you really need to, do not go back to Windows from Linux, it's bloody horrible. I'm having to constantly remind myself that I need Windows to run some software for my course and thus not to wipe the lot and install CrunchBang on it.
Unless you really need to, do not go back to Windows from Linux, it's bloody horrible. I'm having to constantly remind myself that I need Windows to run some software for my course and thus not to wipe the lot and install CrunchBang on it.
Sleeping Menace
New Member
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- UK
I've been exclusively on one 'nix variant or another since.. um.. hmmm.. the beginning of time, or slightly earlier.
I have some clients who use windows on desktops and I'm exposed to just enough of it to know that there's no way I'd have enough patience to spend more than 30 seconds on it before the machine would go out the window.
At present, I have a mix of Ubuntu and Solaris servers, and VM's of .. pretty much every 'nix in existance running at home.. .. my home network is where I do all my POC's and general coding/experimentation .. Personally, I love UBU as a distribution.. does everything I can ask it to..
By the way, a quick way to wind up whomever you live with, is to have a full size rack in your house.. complete with noise and heat
)
if you're bored:
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org/category/home-network/ --at the bottom of the page, are two pics, one of my current, and one of my old home networks... all nix
........................
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org
Cycle related blog entries, including a few 5 minute reviews:
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org/category/cycling/
I have some clients who use windows on desktops and I'm exposed to just enough of it to know that there's no way I'd have enough patience to spend more than 30 seconds on it before the machine would go out the window.
At present, I have a mix of Ubuntu and Solaris servers, and VM's of .. pretty much every 'nix in existance running at home.. .. my home network is where I do all my POC's and general coding/experimentation .. Personally, I love UBU as a distribution.. does everything I can ask it to..
By the way, a quick way to wind up whomever you live with, is to have a full size rack in your house.. complete with noise and heat
)if you're bored:
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org/category/home-network/ --at the bottom of the page, are two pics, one of my current, and one of my old home networks... all nix
........................
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org
Cycle related blog entries, including a few 5 minute reviews:
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org/category/cycling/
