[H-GEN] unbloated, stable, rolling release distros

[Gary Curtis]

As it happens, I'm right in the middle of the install of this distro.

It looks good so far.  Just like Ubuntu without their steeeenkin' Unity.
A minor problem on the first dist-upgrade, quickly fixed my Mr Google.
I like the idea of the rolling release. Time will tell if it likes me.

If you are an Internode customer they have a free Linux Mint mirror.

Gaz


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 14:42, Florent Angly <florent.angly at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Hi Mick,
>
> I don't know if you'd consider it unbloated, but I am enjoying Linux Mint
> Debian Edition, a distro that currently ships with Gnome 2 and is based on
> Debian testing.
> Cheers,
>
> Florent
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> On 25/10/11 13:32, Mick wrote:
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>> Just wondering what is available these days in the way of unbloated,
>> stable, rolling release distros.
>>
>> In the past I have tried:
>> gentoo - spent all my time keeping it up to date but well documented
>>
>> archlinux - quite good between ultra bleeding edge updates but desktop
>> (xfce4), HAL&  UDEV frequently crippled by updates. reasonable core
>>
>> documentation and limited/incomplete/not quite right docs for other bits
>> such as database, mail server.
>>
>> as well as these I have used:
>> redhat 5.2 through FC1
>>
>> debian 3r0 was fine but OLD even at release performed well once I built
>> a decent kernel
>>
>> debian 3r1 slower than a 3 legged donkey in the melbourne cup. tried to
>> build a kernel but selinux refused to let it run.
>>
>> (k)ubuntu - if there was any option that just one person MIGHT use once
>> in their lifetime it was locked in, bloated was a gross understatement.
>> then they went to KDE4 and half the functionality was left behind but
>> you could never run out of eye candy to play with.
>>
>> I have also flirted with slackware but found package management was
>> like groping in the dark wearing oven mittens.
>>
>> PLEASE NOTE THESE ASSESSMENTS ARE IMPURELY SUBJECTIVE AND PROBABLY
>> IL-INFORMED I only included them in the hope they might shed some light
>> on me
>>
>> mick
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