[GRLUG] distros, DE's, etc.

[Topher]

> It's in the official repository for archlinux. ;-) Come to the dark 
> side....

Anything using Enlightenment has to be the Light.  :)

I may very well try it, I'm getting a new machine in a few weeks.  I have 
a LOT of respect for Gentoo, and installed it a while back, but I just 
didn't have the time to mess with it on my day job desktop.  :(

>
> Topher wrote:
>> This is mostly about how I choose a distro, with thoughts thrown in about
>> Desktop Environments, etc.
>>
>> As mentioned, I run Enlightenment (DR16 to be specific).  I don't know of
>> any mainstream distros that make it available in their package system (I
>> haven't looked in a while though).  I also don't know of any mainstream
>> distros that *prefer* to run something other than KDE or Gnome.  They're
>> very intent on making a windows-like system.
>>
>> Since I don't get into that, *any* distro I use is going to get torn apart
>> and re-configured the way I like it.  That nullifies most "default" and
>> "out of the box" settings *except* for hardware detection.
>>
>> So what I look for in a distro is good hardware detection and having
>> modern libraries and such, so that I can still install whatever I want,
>> even if I have to compile it.
>>
>> That levels the playing field a lot.  Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, CentOS;
>> they're all redhat originated, rpm based systems.  I'm going to turn off
>> Gnome and KDE in all of them, get mp3 playback working in all of them,
>> etc.  At that point, what's the difference?
>>
>> Topher
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