“It seems that I am in some sort of retro-mode. As Linux on the
desktop is getting bigger and better, with more apps, more sleek
looks (Galaxy, Keramik and Blue Curve for example) and more idiot
proof, I am going onto simpler, more condensed stuff. The big
distributions are nice, but I really do not need all the
applications that come with them all the time.“I am very promiscuous when it comes to flavours of Linux. My
first installation was RedHat 6. I used Mandrake for a long time,
briefly ran SuSE, Gentoo and Slackware and eventually settled on
Peanut. I have never worked with Debian or Knoppix, DSL’s
ancestors. Experiences with Peanut taught me that using a thin,
less GUI-driven distro, is a good way to learn. This to me is
comparable with switching to vi after having used Kate
extensively…”
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