[GRLUG] openSuSE 10.1 & Freespire Concept

[Jordan Hudson]

yeah, I've read alot about arch, is it lightweight too or is it resource
heavy? I've been toying with Damn Small Linux alot lately, I'm kinda lovin
it. I've never been a big fan of fluxbox, I'd rather see xfce, but fluxbox
is alot smaller.

On 5/16/06, Collin <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
>
> I use Arch Linux. That, of course, is one that no one has talked about
> yet. That's probably because it's basically Gentoo without the
> compiling. It's not exactly a super user friendly version of linux. You
> are supposed to install it via a minimal install and then use it's
> custom package tool (pacman) to get everything you need. Most all of the
> display managers are available (KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, etc).
>
> And actually, you only get away from compiling if you want things that
> are in the official package tree. Theres a user package tree that people
> can add to that basically encapsulates a source tgz with a description
> of how to compile it in arch (sort of like what gentoo does). I think
> Arch is a good compromise between gentoo and the more friendly versions
> of linux. You still need quite a bit of linux knowledge to use it
> because it makes few attempts to hold your hand but it's very
> configurable, fast,  and not as annoying as gentoo (having to compile
> absolutely everything gets old fast.)
>
> If you get the chance I'd recommend trying something like Arch or
> gentoo, at least for education's sake. ;-) It really teaches you to
> figure out where configuration files are kept and how to hand edit them.
> That comes in handy for running servers where the general rule is 'thou
> shalt not run KDE or Gnome.'
>
> Shawn McCuan wrote:
> > What is it that you didn't like about Linspire? (other than the UI -
> > keep in mind it is just KDE...so, the theme can be changed....lol)
> >
> > IMHO, I think that Xandros is really attempting to be a Windows 2000
> > clone...so, no go for me there...and its just plain slow.
> >
> > I use openSuse as my primary distro :) And I frequently "toy" with
> > Gentoo...I can do stage3 installations w/o a problem, but, I still cant
> > quite get a stage1or stage2 to work...lol...
> >
> >
> > Jordan Hudson wrote:
> >
> >> linspire was worse than Xandros, so I probably wont use freespire,
> >> they just look to windows-esque for me. Xandros was the biggest pain
> ever.
> >>
> >> On 5/15/06, *Shawn McCuan * <metiosarius at linspirenetwork.com
> >> <mailto:metiosarius at linspirenetwork.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hey,
> >>
> >>     I was just wondering what you guys have thought of the recent Suse
> >>     Linux
> >>     10.1 release (which I really like - I have been a long time SuSE
> >>     user -
> >>     Yast is awesome...even though SuSE uses *cough*rpm*cough* instead
> >>     of the
> >>     superior *deb package management system) (http://www.opensuse.org)
> >>
> >>     I am a little irritated that SuSE dropped support for RaLink WLAN
> >>     cards
> >>     though...even though I have found a way to get it working by
> >>     installing
> >>     the manufacturers drivers...They are supposed to be releasing an
> >>     "official" patch sometime in the future for this...
> >>
> >>     Also, what do you guys think about the Freespire project?
> >>     ( http://www.freespire.org)
> >>
> >>     Thanks!
> >>
> >>     Shawn McCuan
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