OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Jim Leonard]

Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
> As far a bloat is concerned, just blast KDE/Qt, Gnome/GTK out and just
> use plain X, twm, xterm, Firefox. That's it. If even that is still too
> "bloaty", do without X, go console full console mode and stick to

That's all well and good until you DESELECT X during installation and yet it 
ends up getting installed anyway.

Some distros are simply bloated, particularly any Redhat distro (or derivative) 
in the last 5 years.  I've stopped installing Redhat or Fedora for that reason. 
  My next distro will either be LFS or Gentoo so that I have control over the 
bloat -- if it's bloated, at least it will be my fault!

> p.s. I typically go around using console mode for at least a couple of
> hours everyday. Console mode with framebuffer at 1024x768 is great!!
> :-)

Textmode + screen package is better :-)
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