On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 and have a complete out-of-the-box set of programs (GUI and CLI) > that one would expect out of a Linux based system.
I think you're really looking for the most old-fashioned distro :-) For example, you probably want init scripts in /etc/rc* ... which as many distros as possible are leaving behind ... Debian is the best-managed "old-fashioned" system, but they have package guidelines that mean the installed packages often do not match the upstream author's original intentions; but you didn't explicitly say you wanted to be upstream-compliant. You might enjoy Gobo -- I'm really not sure about the out-of-the-box experience, but the ability to bring in anything upstream and run it with the original author's intended environment is pretty much unparalleled -- there has to be a single kernel, but you can use different libc for different programs if you want, easily. -jim
