On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay there have been a few misunderstandings about what I meant in my > original post on this thread. After some thinking I believe that I can clarify > myself properly > On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:02:30 you wrote: >> Are there any desktop centered distros whose primary aim is to have as few >> surprises as possible for people who are already accustomed to Linux? >> > By accustomed to Linux I mean that this user is more comfortable with Linux > than any other system but not necessarily a power user. > >> I just want a very generic distro. >> > By generic I don't just mean desktop centered with no paradigm shifting > technologies. I mean a system that aims to have as few original contributions > as possible
what do you mean "as few original contributions as possible" - do you mean you want a distro without any special tools that are designed just for that distro, by the distro maker? If so, ubuntu won't do you as they innovate quite a bit, as does fedora, as does suse. That comes of having a bunch of paid developers[1] sitting there developing, innovating and differentiating their distros. And at times their developments get taken up by other distros. eg REDHAT package manager is used by a lot of distros besides Redhat, upstart was developed by Canonical but is now also used by Fedora and others. If you want a very generic system with no distro centered addons then you perhaps don't want a distro at all, because they all try to differentiate themselves in some way with some new 'feature'. If I still misunderstood what you are after then please explain again. > and have a complete out-of-the-box set of programs (GUI and CLI) > that one would expect out of a Linux based system. > > P.S: I know that you can set a root password on Ubuntu but I seam to remember > other things being dropped because they're of no use to granny. > You don't need a root password. Ubuntu proves that. > P.P.S: We're lucky here but there is still need for DVD based systems for > those without broadband. I was running Fedora without internet any connection > at all from mid 2006 to the start of 2008. > [1] OK so fedora's paid developers really work for redhat.
