/context
I am trying to move away from Windows.
I was originally pointed to Ubuntu. Its primary failure was
trying to reach the same audience as the latest/greatest
Microsoft offering. Both suffer from "vendor knows best" syndrome
- too much excess baggage installed by default and essential
software difficult to find.
After reading and trying several live CDs, I settled on Debian
(or a derivative).
The key features were:
1. large user base
2. large repertoire of precompiled software. It has the
additional advantage that apt
and cousins are a good match for how I think ( did not see
need to investigate
other distributions).
3. others with similar interests have found Debian &
derivatives useful.
/end context
My original goal was simply purge Windows and run Linux. I have
come to conclusion that standard Debian installs try to be
*EVERYTHING* to *EVERYBODY*. Ain't gonna work! WinXP is, and will
remain, adequate for email and web browsing.
The short form of my personal goal is:
1. bring back *PERSONAL* to personal computing.
Primary implication - shall not be capable of being a
network server.
Secondary implication - only one person will ever be the
operator.
2. understand Linux internals
3. minimal number of modules, secondarily minimize size of
footprint
Things influencing my outlook
I predate CPM-80
Reading about "Linux from Scratch" and Slackware
Some of the live CDs did a lot with small footprint
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