16 Feb
2013
16 Feb
'13
10:50 a.m.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:02:53 -0800
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb(a)znmeb.net> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
For some time now, and for work as well as home office & DAW, I install the
absolutely minimum debian (not even the desktop initially), install mingetty
and set it up for auto login and single user - there is no one else going to
use my machines!
I then use apt-get to install synaptic, openbox and rox-filer. This
automagically installs all the desktop stuff I *actually* need and none of the
cruft.
I set up sudo for synaptic, halt and reboot (and other specialised stuff
depending on the intended environment).
For the basic desktop I finally create a .profile containing just startx, and
a .config/openbox/autostart containing rox -S &
One reboot and I'm into a fully functional minimum desktop, after which I use
synaptic to pull in whatever else I need, depending on what the machine is
going to be used for - I compile specialist stuff of course.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:14:12 +0100, david
<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
I've had pretty good luck with Fedora 18. I've tried all the desktops
and the lightest thing I've found that actually has most of the
comforts of home is OpenBox with the fbpanel Menu/Panel/Taskbar/Clock
add-on.
No clue how they'll do. I prefer Debian Sid
I don't know the current state of KDE4, but some time ago I used an older
KDE4, not for audio and it was ok. I don't like the design, but the workflow
is ok and it had no performance issues.
I want some clear words about break outs in new directions from the distros.
E.g. on Arch it makes me wonder that people using X, need to pull in
Wayland. This is like installing init and getting systemd as a dependency. I
can live with systemd and perhaps I can live with Wayland, but I won't
unclear transitions, that cause issues.
For Ubuntu I guess the direction is clear, they will build a distro with
shops, unusable DEs, similar to tablet PC stuff. The users are free to
remove Unity and to install another DE, but the DE then will be buggy. My
MUA for Quantal already doesn't work anymore.
Debian Sid might be ok, I just have no good feelings regarding to the state
"unstable".