Hmmm... I just installed slackware 10 the other day. It seemed true to its roots since I ran it around '95-98. It is basic, no bloat, KDE and Gnome, or less bloated window managers if you so choose (blackbox, etc), very simple init scripts, well tested, etc. I would recommend that you at least try it.... I liked what I saw even though it was the first slackware install that I did that was not from a floppy... :-) Anyone remember downloading ~40 floppies worth of stuff under Win 95 so that you could install Slack? Remember all the a, ap, n, d, etc. images?
Also, as for the 2.6 kernel, I read an article the other day about putting the 2.6 kernel on the Slack distro with very little trouble. I will have to see if I can find the article in the morning. I have been up for ~26 hours now and need SLEEP... :-) Shannon On Jun 29, 2004, at 10:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want a distro that doesn't have major bloat on the default install. > JAMD was very good about this but is no more. My experiences with > Suse, Redhat/Fedora, and Debian have always been lots of bloat. I'm > just looking for something using the 2.6 kernel that is designed for > multimedia, web browsing, and productitivity (office). Just your > normal desktop. I'm seriously looking at VidaLinux since it is Gentoo > based without the long ass install of Gentoo. Even though it is on > the 2.4 kernel, emerge'ing to the 2.6 is fairly simple from what I > understand. I don't feel like going through all of the dependency > problems to get updated KDE, kernel, etc. for JAMD which is RedHat > based, so I'm just looking for another distro to throw on this > machine. > > When I talk about bloat, I'm talking about having 6 word processors > installed by default, 5 media players, and a SQL server. I think you > get the point. I want a sleak, well thought out distro that works > well. I would get Xandros, but I don't feel like buying it and I > don't like Opera (which is installed with the free version). I don't > want to have to start uninstalling crap after I'm done installing the > OS. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Shannon Roddy LIGO - Caltech 225.686.3106 (work) 225.933.7821 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
