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State distro, desktop environment, and theme.


Vanilla Debian Sid, with a few third party repositories. GNOME 2.8, with Clearlooks theme.

You should put an "other" because my distro doesn't fall under that, plus I use 3 different distros anyway.

1)Mandrake
2)Beatrix
3)Xandros

1 and 3 run kde, 2 runs gnome.

theme? What theme. I just used the default and changed the background images.

Damn, can't edit the poll. And Xandros and Beatrix are based off of Debian anyway. (Yeah, so is Ubuntu, but their Debian compatibility has gotten broken).

Mandrake 10.1 download distribution

GUI is KDE, default Mandrake Theme

Used Gentoo for a while back on the old laptop, though in the end I basically gave up after I couldn't get it to recognise the sound or network cards. Still undecided about what distro I want to multiboot with XP and FreeDOS on this new computer.

Destructionator XIII wrote:I use Slackware. Believe it or not, but I try to stay away from the GUI as much as possible (I prefer the command line and text mode runs faster and is easier on my eyes) but when I do go GUI, I usally use the Blackbox window manager and no other special stuff. Only if text and Blackbox doesn't offer the functionality I need will I switch to a full desktop environment (doesn't happen often). When I do, I use KDE.

I've tried Mandrake (after reading Mike Wong's page) and Red Hat (on a friend's computer), but I didn't like them as much as Slackware. Slack's simplicity (not ease of use, though!) is very attractive to me.

You browse w/ Lynx/Elinks/W3m?

I use the GUI to run OpenOffice and Firefox, as well as juggling around a large number of Gnome/X terminals. I do most file operations on the command line, except when dealing with removable media for some reason.

Do AIX 5.3 count?

Messing around with a system currently in limbo, not that I understand anything but hey it is fun!

I run Mandrake Cooker on my main box, though I don't always update it since it's frequently broken. My laptops run Gentoo, my router runs Freesco, and then I've also got a couple of Slackware laptops (old Pentiums) and a testing computer with Windows XP and Solaris 10.

I'm running Mandrake 10.1 Official Edition on my primary desktop. I use KDE with a tweaked Plastik theme. I have pre-ordered Mandriva 2005 so I'll upgrade to that in a month or two. My server runs Debian.

I also have one of those lifetime memberships for Linspire, so I might give Linspire Five-0 a try one of these days. Oh, and I will order a Mac mini as soon as I can get it with Tiger; my Kensington wireless Mac keyboard and mouse set is already being shipped to me.

Debian Linux Sid, more or less vanilla (not counting a few self compiled/aliened/whatevered packages).

Destructionator XIII wrote:I use Slackware. Believe it or not, but I try to stay away from the GUI as much as possible (I prefer the command line and text mode runs faster and is easier on my eyes) but when I do go GUI, I usally use the Blackbox window manager and no other special stuff. .

Back when I used Linux, I also used Slackware exclusively. I found it far more tolerable than the Dependency Hell of Red Hat, Debian, and their ilk. Anyway, time for a shameless plug since you mentioned minimalist window managers. Have you ever tried WMI? I fell in love with it and now use it exclusively. It provides the best of both "tiling" window managers like ion and traditional "floating" window managers, and it also has a quick command line at the bottom of the screen.

As for the "distro" question, I steer clear of both Wintel and Lintel. My workstation runs Solaris, my laptop runs Mac OS X, my servers run a mix of Solaris, OpenBSD, and HP-UX, and I have machines for occasional hacking/playing which run HP-UX, VMS, AIX, and Ultrix.

Spacebeard wrote:

Destructionator XIII wrote:I use Slackware. Believe it or not, but I try to stay away from the GUI as much as possible (I prefer the command line and text mode runs faster and is easier on my eyes) but when I do go GUI, I usally use the Blackbox window manager and no other special stuff. .

Back when I used Linux, I also used Slackware exclusively. I found it far more tolerable than the Dependency Hell of Red Hat, Debian, and their ilk. Anyway, time for a shameless plug since you mentioned minimalist window managers. Have you ever tried WMI? I fell in love with it and now use it exclusively. It provides the best of both "tiling" window managers like ion and traditional "floating" window managers, and it also has a quick command line at the bottom of the screen.

As for the "distro" question, I steer clear of both Wintel and Lintel. My workstation runs Solaris, my laptop runs Mac OS X, my servers run a mix of Solaris, OpenBSD, and HP-UX, and I have machines for occasional hacking/playing which run HP-UX, VMS, AIX, and Ultrix.

Yeah, I started Debian package for WMI, but then had to abandon it when my filesystem got trashed (was actually stupid enough to rip the power out of a running computer in a hurry to get it transported- by the way, what dependency hell on Debian? It's nonexistant as well). By the time I fixed it, schoolwork had gotten in the way. (I'm jhnphm if you are wondering).

I've switched to using full GNOME since the performance impact doesn't seem to get in the way anymore and the lack of Xinerama support, but I'll probably switch back eventually, since I no longer have dual monitors (moved to new house, less space).

Should have probably posted something explaining this on the mailing list, but I've been feeling reluctant to send emails recently for some reason.

I'm using Linux since there is nice stuff developed for it like sshfs based on FUSE, UnionFS, etc, and it's easier to get software for Debian, since my computer is only 550MHz and I don't like wasting time compiling, so no BSD for me. Plus I like the GNU userland tools, and as for security I'm not that concerned.

Non-x86 hardware is expensive, and I don't have funds anyway to acquire any hardware to begin with.

What is Ultrix?