Grins from ear to ear


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Let's see if you are the target audience. We have already filled in your answers in lipstick red.
Your computer is from the last decade, has a RAM size of three digits and a CPU that powers a solar calculator? last decade? last millenium, bitch

That's a great come on. Makes you want to try it just on principle. Looks like an OS as involvement device, though. Playground for the proficient.

LinuxBBQ -Break is not bad.
Now to get a SSD for it.

OBARUN __{{emoticon}}__


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Devuan !

masinick wrote:I use Debian Sid (with systemd) and antiX 15, MX-14 and MX-15 with sysinitd, and I also have versions of antiX with systemd.

All of them work. The freedom of choice to use all of them is great! __{{emoticon}}__

In addition to MX and antiX, I do now have PCLinuxOS in current form installed once again, and the current version of PCLinuxOS supports both the old and new worlds when it comes to file systems and boot loaders (ext4 on a DOS-supported BIOS or ext4 on GPT) and GRUB2 with either DOS or GPT support, so the UEFI stuff works with PCLinuxOS, but when it comes to job schedulers, they have chosen, like MX and antiX, to support sysinitd rather than systemd.

Slackware, Puppy, and it's derivatives also support sysinitd, but I don't have any of them currently installed (though I do have instances of Puppy available for my older 32 bit hardware, not on my newer system.

BSD's count ?

without-systemd.org
^---- a thorough, up-to-date list of distros is maintained here

A few mentioned in my post last November have now moved to using systemd (or will in next release):
untangle (Untangle NG Firewall), grml (
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elive (
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) desktop session crashed, crashed, crashed repeatedly when I test drove it.

no activity in finnix mailing list, it has no forum... stick a fork in it

exegnu (
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) is stable (er, oldstable, haha), boring... but has higher memory overhead than antix.
It's one of the few distros still shipping"KDE3 Trinity" desktop environment, FWIW.

I did boot & check SlackEX (
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but, as has been the case with ALL exton's respins across the past 18mos, it completely lacks curation/preconfiguration
(previously, he had released several lovingly-curated Mint LMDE respins that I admired)

I still admire (mentioned back in November) TRIOS linux (OpenRC init + debian jessie +xfce).
Do I boot it often? No.
Site & forums non-english, but english is fully supported in the live and installed O/S

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For second distro on dual-boot laptop of mine (antiX being first), I have installed the latest (07-01-16) absolute, at
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- the large ISO. Netflix works on Chrome ootb, no need for a Silverlight substitute, which impressed me, compared to others. Also comes with Skype installed.
Lastly but not leastly is Slacko, for three.

Sometimes Debian is a pain, yet I keep coming back. Tell me why, please.

fisheater wrote:Sometimes Debian is a pain, yet I keep coming back. Tell me why, please.

.....because it is the most apt base distro! __{{emoticon}}__

GuixSD


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masinick wrote:
Slackware

TRUST ME dude ... Slackw AR e SUCKS !

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ponse wrote:TRUST ME dude ... Slackw_ _ e SUCKS !

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Only to those who don't know how to use it. __{{emoticon}}__

(Not my favourite, though.)

ponse wrote:

masinick wrote:
Slackware

TRUST ME dude ... Slackw_ _ e SUCKS !

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I don't even listen to the little voices in my head. So don't expect me to listen to yours. __{{emoticon}}__


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(size: 671 MB, md5: f2b1969b952f6f46a5f542426f0c397f)

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To be honest, I have yet to find any that I really liked other than antiX, the slackware derivatives of Salix, Slackel, Slitaz and SlackoPuppy, and Manjaro OpenRC. Slackware itself was nowhere near as good as its derivatives, but it did provide many packages that I wanted and was able to install pretty easily.

Ok, but if you say I want to run it as my"daily driver", things get a lot hairier, and I think the issue of how big a following and what support is out there need to be considered. When I switched from Windows to SlackoPuppy 2 yrs ago, maybe I didn't put a high enough value on it. Basically its a really neat OS and after putting in some weeks of effort and learning a bunch of stiuff, I was able to make it do almost everything I wanted and got it to run on all my machines, but I have learned that there is nowhere to ask a question or any help out there if I can't make something work. Anyway, I haven't booted windows at home this year, yet, and I am surviving on my modified Slacko5.7.0, but am considering moving off to antiX as I haven't been able to run Slako5.9.3 and Slacko6.3.0 even in stock form, and antiX has the majority of the things I use and will run on all but one of my machines.