Your "other" distro. (Page 1 of 4)

Used Mint 10 for probably month and a half. Guessing Mint 9 LTS version would be a good introduction to nix for many people. Though, one it's based on buntu and I strongly dislike buntu and 2 on a lower spec system takes too long tweaking it to make it run well. Got tired of having to tweak it, so just installed AntiX and it was blowing Mint 10 out of the water, out of the box in terms of system overhead. Having an ancient box myself, spent mucho time investigating light weight gnu/nix. Crunchbang is da bomb ... Antix, also thought it was great. Have a general rule of thumb I try to keep to. Only 3 nix OS's installed at any given time. Plus Xp is on here too. 4 OS's for one old computer .. seems to be pushing practicality already though, shrugs.

3  gnu/nix distros I have.

1. #! o course.
2. Slitaz Linux 3.0
3. Vector Linux light 6.0

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2011-08-27 19:45:33)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)

I'm forcing myself to learn .rpm based distros in my spare time these days. I prefer debian though, and have recently enjoyed using LMDE XFCE testing on other people's machines.

Whenever possible, I prefer #! for all of my stuff.

1. #!
2. Slitaz 3.0 (If I ever get the resolution down correctly)
3. Puppy Linux

Last resort - Windows 7

I use Fedora and Salix on my netbooks, #! on my desktops.

I still dual boot XP Pro, 'cause I can't make my ancient graphics card to work on any distro (Except Knoppix for some reason), and I need it for gaming. But I don't really have anything against Windows, when I had Ubuntu 10.10 with XP Pro, Windows was even more stable than Ubuntu. Plus the file/drive system (C,D,E drives, system stuff is in C:\Windows) is more understandable for me than the Linux/Unix way.

Arch with Compiz standalone on the desktop and Arch with Openbox on the netbook.

If I had a choice, I would only use #!, but I have to VirtualBox Windows (*shutters*) for some proprietary software that I use for my research.

My microsoft sinned by windoozing, so I got rid of it and installed Linux. Anyways I do want to try slackware or a slackware derived distro.

lol ... it's turned into a wish list distro thread too.

+1 for aspiring to experiment with Arch eventually. Not up to the challenge atm, technically speaking or willing to invest the kinda time that'd be involved. When so many great gnu/nix distros are available and up and running out of the box.

Also wondering about Debian 6. Still have a ways to go in figuring out how to personalize it more too. Also guessing it'd be more time consuming customizing a pure Debian install to include only most the stuff I want and trim out default bloat that wouldn't please the resource miser I've become. Just betting Debian 6, could be made into a super stable + super light weight linuxy goodness.

Afterthought: Guess such a thing already exists ... Isn't it called Crunchbang ? Vector linux is slackware based me thinks. Though distrowatch says it's optimized for i486. Personally like VL light 6.0. Lightest linux I've ever found. Idles at 43mbs on this old dinosaur PC.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2011-08-28 01:01:22)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)

Thank you for the suggestion. Going to give that blog post of yours a read. I would like some insight on the salix world

^I am going to wait until I am more experienced to use Slackware but for now I will stick with #!