Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: What distro's to try

I believe that you now have to pay for Elive. You get a crippled demo only
when you download it for free. As for OpenGEU and its move to Debian, I wish
them well.

I don't think that many users will be happy in the end. If you install
Debian stable then you get an old kernel that is equivalent to what Intrepid
had and you can't even access ext4 partitions. You are turning back to clock
a year and a half. That is the price for using Debian stable. If they go
with Squeeze or Sid then those who crave stability will complain. It is not
as good as it seems on first glance.

I run Sidux (based on Sid) and it works for me. I had Debian 5 installed but
could not stand the old outdated programmes and kernel and not being able to
use my Wacom tablet without editing gconf and not being able to access ext4
partitions. I stayed in it just long enough to know that I was stuck in a
time warp and had to leave as quickly as possible.

Roy

On 8 May 2010 00:38, David Neeley <dbneeley@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> One I rarely see mentioned has been around for years, works extremely
> well even on machines with limited resources, and has plenty of "eye
> candy" as well as performance:
>
> Enlightenment. Currently, up to version 16 in the stable release, and
> 17 for a beta (which many distros are already using, by the way).
>
> There are half a dozen distros that feature Enlightenment. Two that
> seem to stand out are Elive and OpenGEU. From the Elive home page:
>
> " Minimum Requirements: The minimum hardware for running Elive is a
> 100 Mhz CPU and 64 MB of RAM, but the minimum recommended hardware is
> 300 Mhz and 128 Mb of RAM. You do not need any special graphics card
> or 3D acceleration to run Elive. "
>
> On a more powerful system, Elive absolutely rocks! It's Debian based,
> so many packages are available for it. <http://www.elivecd.org/>
>
> OpenGEU is presently moving from being completely Ubuntu based to its
> ISOs being based on Debian, for many reasons. (Note that quite a few
> others are doing the same thing). That said, it will maintain Ubuntu
> packages as well if that is important to you. They discuss the reasons
> for this change on their website. <http://opengeu.intilinux.com>
>
> Enlightenment takes advantage of things like hardware acceleration and
> as much RAM and CPU power as you throw at it. However, it is stunning
> to experience what it can do compared to whatever you might be running
> now.
>
> If you are running a distro presently, it may well have a package for
> Enlightenment in your distro's repositories. Ubuntu has E16 available,
> for example. Once installed, it gives you a boot option to run either
> Gnome or KDE (if you have them installed otherwise, of course!) with
> their own window managers or with Enlightenment, as well as a full
> Enlightenment desktop. I often run KDE with Enlightenment, as I have
> said here before, since it is faster and a bit lighter on resources.
>
> So--if you're playing with various distros and haven't checked these
> out, I suggest you might find it extremely interesting to do so. As
> the name suggests, Elive has a "live CD" version--although I run it
> from a USB key loaded through unetbootin personally.
>
> David
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

------------------------------------

To unsubscribe from this list, please email LINUX_Newbies-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
LINUX_Newbies-digest@yahoogroups.com
LINUX_Newbies-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
LINUX_Newbies-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/