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What would be my own ideal distribution?

Posted by darkduck on · 6 comments
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There was a question addressed to me recently, after publishing the "Divergence in the distros" article. The person asked me: "You tested many distros so you maybe have some pros/cons seen on distros to share." That made me think about the most perfect distribution I'd like to get, ever. Let me share these thoughts with you.

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Comments (6)

Steven_Rosenber ·
Looks interesting. What's in the "MLED package collection"?
darkduck Story submitter ·
@kikinovak: interesting, but definitely contradicts the "Graphical interface" part of my article :)
kikinovak ·
@darkduck: I've written a blog entry about the subject. Read entry #6. By "simple", I mean something like "not messing with my manual configuration".
kikinovak ·
@Steven: It's an Xfce-on-steroids installation with bells and whistles, which I'm using on all my client's production desktops and workstations. I have some screenshots on my main website:

http://www.microlinux.fr/desktop_linux.php
Steven_Rosenber ·
Google Translate did a good job of turning the French into English.

This looks really nice. Vanilla Slackware without KDE lacks a lot, from what I remember (the 12.x days), and this fills it in quite well.

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