On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > > I just want a very generic distro. > > > > Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic', > > as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc. > > > A distro aiming at as few surprises as possible. > Most of what I have mentioned are relatively generic but all > have some surprises. Fedora has become particularly annoying > to upgrade and Ubuntu tries to prevent serious tinkering etc, etc. What surprises? debian, CentOS, ubuntu are all generic things. Can't comment on how bleeding edge Fed is these days.
set a root password on Ubuntu and it's more like an up-to-date debian... which is good! The problem I have with what you're asking is that there are different versions of a distro for a reason. eg Ubuntu... LTS for servers, standard for desktops, xubuntu for older machines, netbook remix for... and so on. > > > Are you after minimal, like a vanilla debian net install? > > > No, full desktop from a disk. You'll really need a dvd for that then... Cheers, Steve
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