On 11/25/2011 01:11 PM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, andy pugh<bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 25 November 2011 10:51, Peter Blodow<p.blo...@dreki.de> wrote: >>> Andy, you hit me severely there. My respect to all developers and >>> programmers of EMC, but I am sure there is a large silent majority of >>> EMC users who participate without writing to the list, just reading and >>> enjoying. >> >> Indeed, my point is that those are the people who we should consider >> when choosing an OS to base the LiveCD on. >> >> I have been a fairly hardcore user of Linux, RTAI, realtime linux, and for > that matter emc from back in the old source tarball days. My preference is > to continue using Ubuntu for the livecd unless there is a real crisis. As > Andy says, it's not that hard to install emc2 on another machine if you are > moderately skilled at using Linux. I have really gotten used to apt-get > installs, and I hate building from source. Even the most minimal source > build seems to require ridiculous dependency hassles that just aren't worth > it to me any more. Unless you get the source package from a distribution, > of course. > Eric
I don't believe the goal is to make anything harder, or to go away from the debian packaging system (apt-get etc). I think the problem is that the newest version of Gnome (v3) is more bloated and less usable than ever. Xubuntu is a complete Ubuntu system but it uses XFCE for the desktop instead of Gnome. Lubuntu is Ubuntu with LXDE. Both of these require a lot less system resources than Gnome or KDE, but are fully functional and nice enough looking. And of course Debian is what Ubuntu is based on but it tends to be more stable. It has not historically had as good hardware and media format support out of the box as Ubuntu partly due to a more strict adherence to an open-source-only policy. That may have changed a little now, but I don't know since I haven't used it much for a while. Moses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
