On 29 May 2010 13:02, Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any desktop centered distros whose primary aim is to have as few > surprises as possible for people who are already accustomed to Linux? > > So far all of the distros I have seen (old Knoppix, Red Hat, Linspire, > Ubuntu, Fedora, Kubuntu, Slackware, Mandriva, Open Suse, Gentoo, Debian and > a few others that I have tried for an afternoon or so) have had some other > primary > goal. > > I just want a very generic distro. > > I have found Sabayon pretty good. The CoreCD version would probably do what you want pretty well. http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=20421 There is also a distro called 'Caclculate-Linux' which is similar, and quite possibly somewhat better. http://www.calculate-linux.org/en I have played with the Live CD and was pretty impressed. I have not installed it because - after a bunch of upgrades - Sabayon became rough enough for my simple needs. > P.S: If anyone with the resources wants to start up such a distro I'm > willing to help. > Sorry no, there are umpteen thousand Linux distros available already, and I am now strictly in 'user mode' as far as computing is concerned. i.e. I don't need or want the stress. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
