With the machines I have (1.0-2.66GHz CPU's), in general I find Gnome desktops (Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu) and KDE4 desktops (OpenSuSE 11.x) to be a little too resource intensive and slow, so I tend towards KDE3.5 (SimplyMEPIS, Kanotix) or XFCE based distros (Zenwalk). Zenwalk has been able to squeeze better video resolution out of built-in video cards on P3 machines than any other distro. MEPIS development has seemingly ground to a standstill, and Kanotix is technically still only a release candidate. My old favorite PCLinuxOS is starting to age, and even with *two* Madriva releases for them to work from, development there seems to be at a standstill as well.
--- In [email protected], "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I'm wondering is whether there's a distro > that, once you're logged in, never requires a > password again? Puppy Linux 4.x -- you are basically running as root full-time. > To me, if you're logged in, you're you. And you > should then be free to do any task allowed at your > user level, without being constantly nagged to > re-verify. But Linux *does* allow you to run everything "at your user level" without interference -- at least all the distributions I routinely use do. The only distro that *ever* asked for my user password when I was already logged in was Mandriva 2008 doing user-level updates of existing software. Adding new software needed root access. Are you referring to Ubuntu's sudo behavior? In general, I prefer distros that have separate root and user passwords and allow root logins. Bottom line, if Linux asks you for a password, there's almost certainly a good reason for it, even for something as apparently simple a resetting the system clock. > Windoze doesn't nag, and until we either refine or > create a distro with the same latitude, we'll never > achieve the world domination that Linux deserves. Vista nags. I'm not into Macs, but I agree with the Mac commercial that said "You are coming to a sad realization. Do you Accept (Y/N)?" > Does anyone know if there is such a beast, or am > I just being hopeful? There are such beasts, Michael, but trust me, you don't want to run them. > --- In [email protected], Frank Newman > <liverpoolscousermarch@> wrote: > Michael - I can't speak for Kubuntu - it may be specific to Gnome or > Mint - but I can go to Administration / Login Window / Security and > enable automatic login. That's not what he was asking, Frank. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
