Hi; I'm finding my time with Ubuntu coming to an end. I really don't like all the apps that run by default, and I can't stand NetworkManager. In my experience it's really bad at keeping connections up, and it's so much less friendly (in my very personal opinion) than wpa_supplicant (and they removed the network monitor applet from the default install!). That said, I'm thinking of just switching to Debian, but I'm wondering what other distros people out there are enjoying. I'm using fedora at work, can't complain too much about it. The target machine is a T42 thinkpad, 1.6ghz, 1.5G of ram. Not a beast by modern standards but still it shouldn't feel this slow... I find that 9.10 is just moving in a direction that isn't well-suitded to me.
I'm not particularly fussy about gnome vs kde vs xfce vs anything, on most of my machines I run FreeBSD + fluxbox, but I do like to keep up with the goings on in linux so that's why I run it on the lappy. I'm looking for a distro that really wowed someone out there with a lightweight install, not too many fancy bells/whistles, that made them feel good about running this OS. Thanks; -Andy. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
