I kind of fancy Knoppix live CD distros ( or copy to harddrive for
minimal bootup requirements.)
These provide application specific knockoffs, so you don't have to
peruse a million packages that you've
no interest in - you choose a narrowed down knockoff to your specific
area and then download
what packages aren't there. And yeah, it's easy to create your own
Knoppix knockoff.
(It's wonderful to have so many packages to choose from, but kind of
like compiling your own
kernel, once the number of options got more than 400,000 or so, it
became a bit painful to
do insightfully).
Owen Densmore wrote:
OK, Doug has brought up a point I've wondered about.
Friamers .. another question .. well three actually .. for you all:
- Which Linux desktop distros have you used?
- Which distro do/did you like best?
- What hardware did you run it on?
Years ago at Sun I was a RedHat + Gnome user .. indeed in 2000-2002,
it, on the Thinkpad hardware, had taken over SunLabs. We even put it
in our JavaCar and found it worked with most of the weird drivers we
needed.
It was a bit hard to get going on laptops, however. Audio was quite
difficult, requiring rebuilding the kernel with new drivers, and
getting the Sleep function to work correctly was tough. But all in
all, RedHat + Gnome + Thinkpad was quite successful. Gnome was even
available on Solaris, so the interoperability was great between the
Sun servers and the laptops.
So anyone else out there taken on the Linux desktop challenge?
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Douglas Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 20, 2006 6:26:33 AM MDT
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Leopard vs. Vista
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<[email protected]>
Mandriva 2007 'la Ora' with KDE 3.5.4 (and a slew of whatever other
packages you prefer)..
http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007
On 10/20/06, fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What do you think is more impressive,
advanced and useful, the new..
..Mac OS X Leopard with "Time Machine",
"Spotlight" and "Ruby on Rails"..
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html
..or the new Windows Vista
with Aero, WPF and WCF ?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
-J.
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