Andy Pintar wrote: > 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. I have gentoo and debian testing installed on same drive as ubuntu and switch liberally among them. I have felt some pangs with what ubuntu is doing, but in general they were stuff I needed to learn the new way of working with (cough grub2)... When I get really annoyed with Ubuntu I go into gentoo and suddenly everything that bothered me about Ubuntu seems minor haha. Aversion therapy of a sort.
I am sure you know you can purge networkmanager and just use /etc/network/interfaces and/or wpa_supplicant if you want (sudo aptitude purge network-manager network-manager-gnome; AFAIK this should do it). But trying new distros is fun, so I encourage you to go for it, and report back. As Anarcat said, Arch is probably a good place to look, although it was not my fave last time I tried it. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
