On December 3, 2013, Levi Pearson wrote: > If I was going to spend a bunch of time installing and learning a new
> distro, I'd try out NixOS (http://nixos.org/) which has my favorite > concept of all the distributions. It treats package managment and > configuration as part of the same system, That sounds rather bizzare to me. But maybe I'm misunderstanding you on that. I'll look over the site a bit, but perhaps you can explain better how this package managment and configuration works combined? Out of curosity, if it's a distribution of Linux, why are they calling it something else (NixOS vs. Nix Linux)? Or, is it not so much Linux as a *NIX O/S? That's what I'd guess from the name, but I could be wrong. --- Dan On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/03/2013 11:10 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > > * Mint > > - Ugly, old, backwards UI choices > > Sounds like a plus in my book. Although Mint may be the distro > developing Cinnamon and Mate, the big distros now support them both out > of the box. Fedora for sure has them both. > > Despite the age of the core technologies, Mate+Compiz work best for me. > And Mate can live alongside Gnome 3 and Cinnamon, so I'm not giving up > anything. I still use some Gnome 3 apps. > > Cinnamon is okay, but I like the customizations I have made in Compiz, > and I have to have a pager that shows at least window outlines like > Mate/Gnome2 does. I've tried to put in a feature request to Cinnamon > for the pager thing, but they didn't seem to understand just what I was > getting at. Ahh well. If anyone knows an extension that can give me > this feature, I would very much like to know about it. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
