On 5 November 2014 14:32, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
I'm a clueless end user with two laptops, one large boat-anchor Dell i5 that is my 'typing box' and another X60 that I actually carry round. Sid gives me a fully functional desktop that runs well on an 8 year old laptop with 2Gb of ram. Amazing really. > 1. What are your issues, reasons for doing so - general and/or specific? Vague sense of unease at the rate and direction of technical change, not limited to init system and associated daemons and services. > 2. What are you considering, evaluating, or otherwise thinking about? Considering for typing box: Getting off the escalator for a couple of years by using gNewSense (Debian based fully libre distro. V3 based on Squeeze, forthcoming V4 based on Wheezy). I have a wifi card that uses a fully free driver on the Dell. Considering for X60: WM ontop of X with systemv and pmount for the laptop I carry round. Printing not really needed. See http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/osd.html > 3. What other options/initiatives are you aware of that you've discarded or > otherwise are not considering, and why? OpenBSD 5.6 very nice, but little advantage over WM + Jessie with pmount. (toad/daemons for auto-mount breaks suspend on my hardware). OpenIndiana (Illumos kernel) very interesting and educational to try, but really 2005 ish. Booted and installed fine on a testing laptop. Killer was font rendition, suspend and available applications. Yes, I am an end user :-) Cheers -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caa6tw_f0falp-t5rhv0e0v2ikaud-kgm0lsnofau1p0sew3...@mail.gmail.com