OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Wai-Sun Chia]

On 12/7/05, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. I know. For servers I choose custom install, and NOT select even
a SINGLE package. After the final reboot, I'll then remove the
unwanted stuff manually.

>
> 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 :-)

Console/framebuffer is like textmode but 128 columns by 47 rows.
I don't need screen because you can have 6 virtual consoles.

This is of course assuming you have a monitor and a video adapter. If
you're on a serial console with a VT100 (i.e. a single session), then
screen is a godsend.