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

[David Seikel]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:47:22 +1000 Paul Gear <humbug at libertysys.com.au>
wrote:

> > (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 use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my laptop.  The big win for me came when i
> realised that i didn't actually need more up-to-date versions of
> everything and stuck on LTS.  Prior to that my laptop had been
> upgraded to every standard release, and i spent a lot more time on
> care & feeding and a lot less time being productive.  I don't like
> where Canonical is going with Unity, so if they don't support
> something vaguely reminiscent of GNOME 2 on the next LTS release,
> i'll probably head back to Debian.

There is nothing forcing anyone to use a specific window / desktop
manager in Ubuntu.  So you can get rid of Unity and use GNOME if you
prefer.  First thing I do when installing Ubuntu on my systems is to
install Enlightenment E17 and slim.

On the subject of bloat, I've yet to find a distro that would let me
easily remove printing support.  I don't own a printer, I don't want
dead trees.  The only way I have ever found of stripping a distro down
to the absolute bare minimum I actually need is to build one from
the ground up.  Someone's paying me to do that now for an embedded
project. B-)

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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