On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Ritesh Sinha <ritesh.kumar.si...@gmail.com > wrote:
> If you want a minimal Ubuntu based you can start with the mini.iso > file provided by Ubuntu and work your way up to install stuff that you > need. If you like lightweight Desktop Environments I would highly > recommend awesome3. I currently use this on my Ubuntu system. I'm > addicted to apt-get so I like the option of having it around for easy > package installs. > > The cons are that it will require a fair bit of package downloading as > well as customization of the awesome rc.lua file for your needs. A > tiling window manager is the best if you use a number of terminals > etc. I try and use either the gmail web interface or mutt for email, > irssi for irc and pidgin for other IM networks (you could rid yourself > of pidgin too if you used bitlbee to run an IM gateway, allowing you > to connect via irssi). > > All the best on your minimalist quest! :) > My requirement is minimalist +rolling. So a full rolling distro makes sense. I had thought about the minimal ubuntu route, but obviously it is not rolling. awesome 3 - never heard about it frankly, so reading up on it now. However i am not a poweruser or techie. *From its site: awesome* is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>. It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on theirs graphical environment. AntiX also uses Apt-get and Synaptic, and a lot of Debian repos as it is based on Mepis and debian. I am a as-little-of-terminal-as-possible kind of guy. Will try it for a while. Also it uses delta packages which i have been hoping Ubuntu starts. Opensuse and Fedora have been using it for ages. Regards Narendra Diwate
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