I use Ubuntu, though I strip away much of the out-of-the-box stuff I don't need, so of course I think your proposal is a good idea. It would certainly make my life a little easier :)
On the other hand, I'm a little confused by a potential conflict of philosophies. DWM seems actively antagonistic towards people building packages from it - so I'm surprised to hear you suggest it be included in a package-based distro. Looking elsewhere, have you had any experience with Arch Linux? I wonder if this would be a more philosophically sympathetic basis for the kind of distro you're hankering after? M. On 14/03/07, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there, during last week I evaluated Windows Vista during my freetime - I'm not surprised... The whole system is too slow for me and contains only few innovations I consider useful (well most of them are also part of OS X, though I'm not uptodate with OS X). To a long-year X/wmii/dwm user the most annoying part in Windows Vista is the inefficient cut'n'paste handling and the manual window organization (even the mouse-driven Snarfing of Plan 9 is faster than this braindamaged and inconsistent cut'n'paste handling of Windows). The trip with Windows Vista lead to a reinstallation of ubuntu on my notebook (because I had to re-partition my disk), but the ubuntu installation also was very disappointing, because of this retarded Gnome environment (XFCE, KDE and Gnome altogether are pretty similiar to the Vista Desktop)... With each ubuntu/debian installation I have to install dozens of packages to setup my system as I like it to be, this sucks. I can't even use a live cd to run my environment on any computer - the stuff by Michael Prokop called grml (www.grml.org) contains too much stuff I don't regularly use - although it comes very near to what I'd like to have. I also notice that there is no real Linux distribution with the flavor 'designed for C hackers and 9 lovers' out of the box (grml closes the gap for sys admins). So I got the idea that I'd like to see a new ubuntu flavor called 9ubuntu for '9 lovers and C hacker ubuntu' which comes packed with dwm/wmii and all necessary tools for developing C code (*-dev, vim, gcc, make, plan9ports,...) instead of those clunky desktop environments. What do people think about this idea? Even if this might not be officially supported by the ubuntu community, I'd like to see something like this, because I need it. Is there anyone interested to initiate such a project? Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
