[FRIAM] Distro, distro, .. which is best!

[Bill Eldridge]

I kind of fancy Knoppix live CD distros ( or copy to harddrive for 
minimal bootup requirements.)
These provide application specific knockoffs, so you don't have to 
peruse a million packages that you've
no interest in - you choose a narrowed down knockoff to your specific 
area and then download
what packages aren't there. And yeah, it's easy to create your own 
Knoppix knockoff.
(It's wonderful to have so many packages to choose from, but kind of 
like compiling your own
kernel, once the number of options got more than 400,000 or so, it 
became a bit painful to
do insightfully).

Owen Densmore wrote:
> OK, Doug has brought up a point I've wondered about.
>
> Friamers .. another question .. well three actually .. for you all:
>    - Which Linux desktop distros have you used?
>    - Which distro do/did you like best?
>    - What hardware did you run it on?
>
> Years ago at Sun I was a RedHat + Gnome user .. indeed in 2000-2002,  
> it, on the Thinkpad hardware, had taken over SunLabs.  We even put it  
> in our JavaCar and found it worked with most of the weird drivers we  
> needed.
>
> It was a bit hard to get going on laptops, however.  Audio was quite  
> difficult, requiring rebuilding the kernel with new drivers, and  
> getting the Sleep function to work correctly was tough.  But all in  
> all, RedHat + Gnome + Thinkpad was quite successful.  Gnome was even  
> available on Solaris, so the interoperability was great between the  
> Sun servers and the laptops.
>
> So anyone else out there taken on the Linux desktop challenge?
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>   
>> From: "Douglas Roberts" <doug at parrot-farm.net>
>> Date: October 20, 2006 6:26:33 AM MDT
>> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"  
>> <friam at redfish.com>
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Leopard vs. Vista
>> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group  
>> <friam at redfish.com>
>>
>> Mandriva 2007 'la Ora' with KDE 3.5.4 (and a slew of whatever other  
>> packages you prefer)..
>> http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007
>>
>> On 10/20/06, fromm <fromm at vs.uni-kassel.de> wrote:
>> What do you think is more impressive,
>> advanced and useful, the new..
>>
>> ..Mac OS X Leopard with "Time Machine",
>> "Spotlight" and "Ruby on Rails"..
>> http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html
>>
>> ..or the new Windows Vista
>> with Aero, WPF and WCF ?
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/
>>
>> -J.
>>
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>> -- 
>> Doug Roberts, RTI International
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>> doug at parrot-farm.net
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