OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

Roger Merchberger zmerch at 30below.com
Thu Dec 1 17:48:07 CST 2005


Rumor has it that Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner may have mentioned these words:
>It was thus said that the Great woodelf once stated:
> >
> > Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > There's a lot of window managers out there that don't have the bloat
> > > problems of Gnome and KDE. I like WindowMaker, but you can get
> > > AfterStep, fluxbox, icewm, etc.; there's tons available out of the box
> > > on most distros. The only way to win the "Desktop Envoronment" game is
> > > not to play :-)
> > >
> > So what does real unix use for a GUI?
>
>   X Windows with only three programs:  xload, xclock and xterm. 8-P

You obviously forgot the *real* Spider solitare game... a *must* on any 
system I build!

And it's ontopic - the last changes made to the source code for that were 
back in '90!

>   -spc (That's pretty much all I've ever used X for ... well, except
>         for Mosaic/Netscape/Mozilla as well these past few years ... )

I'm starting to learn PCB under linux now for a few things I've been 
wanting to design for years now -- and in this month's Linux Journal (just 
got it today) it outlines how to make stuff using gEDA, of which PCB is a 
part of...

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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