Part of me cringes when you discuss intentionally installing old stable instead of current stable, just for future security/upgrade purposes. Will the group applying security fixes do it forever? (Long Term Support until 2016-02-?[193] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#cite_note-195> ) If you don't like gnome 3 (me neither), there is cinnamon and mate available, as well as LXDE and XFCE...
Although, I have no idea how much work migrating your preseed.cfg files to wheezy would be... On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the many comments. Several got me thinking. I now > have a better idea of how/why I got to where I am. > > In summary: > I am trying to move away from Windows (and similarly > Canonical) - the "vendor > knows best" syndrome which yields excess baggage installed by > default and > essential software missing. > > I've settled on Debian (or a derivative). > The key features were: > 1. large user base > 2. large repertoire of precompiled software. (apt, synaptic) > 3. others have found Debian & derivatives useful. > 4. avoiding rolling releases > A short form of my personal goal is: > 1. bring back *PERSONAL* to personal computing. > 2. understand Linux internals > 3. minimal number of modules > > In the near term I will base my work on Debian Squeeze: > 1. I already have a collection of preseed.cfg files for > several use cases. > 2. I comes with Gnome2 *NOT* Gnome3. > 3. Its d-i results better approximate some poorly specified goals. > 4. There is a group applying security fixes. > 5. Wheezy does not appear to offer any features of personal > interest. > (suspect I will skip Jessie for same reason) > > I'll attempt to follow Nate Taylor's suggestion to follow > http://live-systems.org/build/. > > It may not be an ideal approach. But any failures should be > educational ;} > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
