[dundee] Change of Distro - light blue touchpaper and retire

[christopher wyllie]

How about Sabayon? It's gentoo based is it not and it definitely has all the
necessary multimedia/'restricted' codecs/drivers etc. bundled.

If I remember it used to be a bit bleeding edge but it's just hit version 4
so perhaps it's a bit more stable nowadays.

It has KDE :-) lol.

2009/2/25 Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>

> I think I have finally had enough of OpenSuse, discouraged by things like
> refusing to fix Network manager's conflict with ppp and marking it as a
> "WONTFIX" [fx offstage: sounds of hysterical laughter]; removal of Webmin,
> Realplayer, kjobviewer; smashing /etc/* config files and/or magically
> generating them from some gui tool without telling you where THAT tool has
> its
> config files [fx offstage: sounds of crying, smashing of keyboard]; making
> it
> hard to derive a new distro; ignoring simple user requests to fix minor
> bugs;
> bizarre problems with HAL (also known as the Hardware Obstruction Layer)
> and
> putting the "F" into "fdi"; not even having the GIMP in the live-cd...grrr.
>
> As I'm too lazy^H^H^H busy to do any research for myself (and seem to be a
> bit
> busy writing some gubbins about Squid for a bunch of sandal-wearing
> linuxistas) and it's been a bad day AND the gout is playing up again
> [ibuprofen and cocodamil for lunch, my favourite] perhaps some serious and
> ideally, not-so-serious suggestions from you all would help.
>
> My URS for a new distro is:-
>
> - Must not commit any of the above distro-crimes;
> - Must be KDE-friendly (Gnome is gnot for me);
> - Must not be Ubuntu-derived (so kiss my shiny plastic mouse, Azmodie et
> al);
> - Must have reasonably good package management (i.e. not like Linux From
> Scratch*)...
> - ...and that really means probably NOT rpm/hell package management;
> - Should be able to reasonably easily derive new distros / modified distros
> from it;
> - Should allow for installation of so-called 'restricted' or
> patent-encumbered
> software.
> - Ideally, would be easily usable by she-who-must-be-obeyed / DFU's as
> well;
> Should be upgradable in-place**;
>
> Does this just leave Slackware and Gentoo?
> TayLix? TheLinuxSociety.iso? OldGitix? Suggestions, serious or otherwise
> welcome (only physically possible ones from you *buntu users, please).
>
> [Sits back, sips coffee, awaits flames]
>
>
> * For those who don't know, LFS has the ultimate techie package management
> solution. It hasn't got one.
> ** Yes, I too have suffered from the Mandrake/riva/OpenSuse "is this an
> upgrade, if so abandon all hope of it working" installation check-box which
> basically results in having to install the system twice. Tra la la.
> --
>
> Robert Ladyman
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