Re: Cut down Linux + customisable X windows
On cut down distribution: Go to distrowatch.com and take a look. I would recommend checking out Vector linux as well. It was extreemly cut down and ran very well. Else if you really need to go cutdown DSL (damnsmalllinux) could be the way to go. But you need to define if you are talking cutdown as in a P4 with 512mb ram or cutdown as in a 500mhz ARM processor with 32mb of flash memory. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Cut down Linux + customisable X windows
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:37:25PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: On 09/02/12 11:54, Ian Fleming wrote: ... I would say Arch Linux. Having said that you will need to be familiar with a couple of configuration files and/or have good google foo ;) ... and have patience for your package manager breaking every time you update. Why bother when Debian is so similar to Ubuntu, and takes so much less effort to maintain? I've never met anyone who needs the bleeding edge that Arch provides (and Gentoo is pretty much the same). No fun. I do not recommend the testing repo and one just has to go to archlinux.org before the upgrade to look for those very rare show stoppers (ive had one in 2 years) or just review the upgrades output for any warnings. Fun. True you can not upgrade blindly. That applies to all distros! -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Cut down Linux + customisable X windows
On 09/02/12 12:55, Ian Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:37:25PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: ... and have patience for your package manager breaking every time you update. ... No fun. I do not recommend the testing repo and one just has to go to archlinux.org before the upgrade to look for those very rare show stoppers (ive had one in 2 years) or just review the upgrades output for any warnings. Fun. I've experienced major breakage every time (all three of them ;-) i've touched an Arch Linux system and tried to update a package. And that was with their stable repo. Note that this was just updating to apply security updates, not anything analogous to a Debian or Ubuntu distribution upgrade. True you can not upgrade blindly. That applies to all distros! I've upgraded almost blindly on Debian Ubuntu many times and not had even the troubles i had on simple application of security updates on Arch. -- Drive-by downloads and cross-site scripting attacks while Web browsing are some of the greatest online security threats to desktop computers. Browsing with the NoScript Firefox extension can greatly reduce the chance of these exploits. http://noscript.net/ attachment: paul.vcf-- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Cut down Linux + customisable X windows
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au wrote: On 09/02/12 12:55, Ian Fleming wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:37:25PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: ... and have patience for your package manager breaking every time you update. ... No fun. I do not recommend the testing repo and one just has to go to archlinux.org before the upgrade to look for those very rare show stoppers (ive had one in 2 years) or just review the upgrades output for any warnings. Fun. I've experienced major breakage every time (all three of them ;-) i've touched an Arch Linux system and tried to update a package. And that was with their stable repo. Note that this was just updating to apply security updates, not anything analogous to a Debian or Ubuntu distribution upgrade. True you can not upgrade blindly. That applies to all distros! I've upgraded almost blindly on Debian Ubuntu many times and not had even the troubles i had on simple application of security updates on Arch. As a general rule, if you apt-get upgrade, you are always going to be safe. If you apt-get dist-upgrade, you should know what you are doing (packages can be removed). Just be aware of the differences. My workflow is typically apt-get upgrade and then dist-upgrade. If dist-upgrade tells me that some package will be removed and it looks important (unity, ubuntu-desktop etc), I leave it alone for a day and then start it over again. Ubuntu is by far the most stable upgrades I've ever experienced. IMO, nothing else comes close. -- Drive-by downloads and cross-site scripting attacks while Web browsing are some of the greatest online security threats to desktop computers. Browsing with the NoScript Firefox extension can greatly reduce the chance of these exploits. http://noscript.net/ -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
