If Linux Mint disappeared tomorrow, what would you use?

[Nightstrike2009]

I'd probably use Debian or Fedora personally (I have only recently left Ubuntu for good), more than likely Debian as I am better suited to Deb based Linux OS's than RPM ones, I have virtually no experience of RPM ones, but have a great deal of respect for both Debian & Fedora and its users.

[msuggs]

I've tried many different package bases and distros but Debian would be/is my home. I have LMDE on a netbook that won't take a netinstall and an old laptop I lend to visitors and don't have time to tweak. Apart from that it's custom Debian builds all the way on my production machines. Squeeze will be (is already) a great release.

[Elisa]

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And did you try another cool distro - SkoleLinux ?
http://www.slx.no
It's awesome (not only 4 children) !

http://www.slx.no/en/in-use

[willie42]

Linux Mint gone. I would move to first Crunchbang second Ubuntu.


I dont even want to think about Mint going away.

[mads]

Well, I've been looking for an excuse to commit suicide for some time now, so...

[lakehousetech]

Debian.

[utsuwa]

I use Mint at work. So, not all distros can satisfy me. Things like puppy won't do any good with root access. Slackware takes too long to install packages (at home it is one of my distros and its good, cuz I don't need to install much). So, if Mint is gone I would have to go for Sabayon or Fedora.

[xieu90]

if mint disappear tomorrow then I will continue to use the lastest mint and wait until something better than that lastest version is born. then switch to that one ^^

[Theologian]

Plan 9 http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

That's quite retro, although there is a development of Glenda the space bunny: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/

Alternatively, how about some of these:

For a full-featured OS: http://www.menuetos.net/ or its 32bit fork http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Main_Page ?

For speed: http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html ?

For strangeness: http://www.losethos.com/ ?

For an OS that does deserve consideration: http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html ?

Or, if you simply want to go back to before it all started to go wrong: http://www.multicians.org/ !

[asymmetros]

altair4 wrote:
Plan 9 http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
That's quite retro, although there is a development of Glenda the space bunny: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
Alternatively, how about some of these:
For a full-featured OS: http://www.menuetos.net/ or its 32bit fork http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Main_Page ?
For speed: http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html ?
For strangeness: http://www.losethos.com/ ?
For an OS that does deserve consideration: http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html ?
Or, if you simply want to go back to before it all started to go wrong: http://www.multicians.org/ !

Quite impressive! Has anyone tried one of those systems?

[gizmodo]

proberly debian. mainly because i fell in love with i recently. although this would as ikey said: "put you through all the hassle of actually getting it working. so that why whey made LMDE"

[Theologian]

altair4 wrote:
Plan 9 http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
That's quite retro, although there is a development of Glenda the space bunny: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
Alternatively, how about some of these:
For a full-featured OS: http://www.menuetos.net/ or its 32bit fork http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Main_Page ?
For speed: http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html ?
For strangeness: http://www.losethos.com/ ?
For an OS that does deserve consideration: http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html ?
Or, if you simply want to go back to before it all started to go wrong: http://www.multicians.org/ !

Quite impressive! Has anyone tried one of those systems?

I actually installed Plan9, but it's not really practical as a 'normal' desktop; likewise Inferno.
Baremetal (not even a desktop, as such), MenuetOS, & LoseThos (experimental, just for the fun of it) are 64bit, which I don't have.
KolibriOS (forked from Menuet's apparently no longer maintained 32bit version) is a neat retro written in Assembly, with loads of games, etc., fits on a single floppy & runs in 8MB RAM!
Syllable (derived from Atheos) is impressive & deserves to do well, runs in 64MB RAM, but better in 128: well worth a look, & should be a definite alternative to the Linux base, once it reaches final release stage. (Its server edition is Linux-based).
Multics is the reason why Unix was written, Plan9 was written to solve some of the problems in Unix, by the same people who developed Unix at Bell labs.

Another Linux I've discovered recently is SliTaz (http://www.slitaz.org/en/), which is a 30MB, full-featured distro with loads of information available, a daily ISO release of its repository, & a busy development community: well worth a try.

[asymmetros]

And i was thinking that this (http://www.opencobalt.org/) is strange

Menuetos seems interesting by judging from their webpage. Another choices are http://www.kongoni.org/, http://anubislinux.tk/ or http://www.diy-linux.org/about

My guess is that Slitaz must be VERY fast ..(working completely in RAM). I used once Puppy in a old PC which barely had a hdrive and it was running like hell.

But for me now, is LMDE -and if disappears, i ll just keep debian's sources on.

[tdockery97]

I found mine. I'm using it now alongside Mint 10. I enjoy both of them equally well.

[chipps61]

I would distro hop for a while, and if nothing jumped out at me, Ultimate Edition. I absolutely love that over the top distribution, way too much bloat and no web page to speak of and all.

[TBABill]

PCLinuxOS again or Ubuntu again.

[Theologian]

And i was thinking that this (http://www.opencobalt.org/) is strange
Menuetos seems interesting by judging from their webpage. Another choices are http://www.kongoni.org/, http://anubislinux.tk/ or http://www.diy-linux.org/about
My guess is that Slitaz must be VERY fast ..(working completely in RAM).

That's some interesting systems: I'm probably too lazy to be bothered doing a DIY/Linux From Scratch, customising LM10 is about right for me.

MenuetOS 32bit/KolibriOS are lightning fast, but I guess that's Assembly for you - 'boot>desktop' in a flash!

SliTaz is very fast once it's loaded into RAM, unfortunately it doesn't seem to have the 'persistence' necessary for a USB install. What I have found invaluable is their GRUB4DOS floppy which will boot up a USB install on a machine that doesn't support USB booting: this is how I'm running LM10 and #!9.04.1 on my old HDD-less wreck. SliTaz also have a collection of floppy IMGs for building a base system.

I have great respect for all the developers who seem to take into account that some of us don't have the latest hardware, don't go out and buy the latest gadget, and aren't convinced that bigger numbers mean better systems. The other aspect of course is the amount of landfill and pollution being directly caused by bloated programming and OSs/distros that effectively force old hardware into obsolescence. This means that certain 'free' operating systems become affordable only to those who can afford the latest hardware that can support all the bloat. And why is it seemingly impossible to buy a blank laptop/netbook? GRRR!!!!!

[iironjade]

I think I'd go with Pinguy because it just looks so good or maybe Sabayon for the same reason.

[Pesky]

I am new to Linux, and a recent refugee from Windows.

After much struggle, I managed to get everything working in Ubuntu. I am not a computer or network newbie. However, my experience was in the world of Novell Netware and then Windows networking. Let's just say there is a lot to learn when you make this jump, especially if you are a little compulsive about your computer and expect things to be 100% correct and tuned up. After all this, I have come to realize that Mint would have been a much more pleasurable experience than Ubuntu. It's much closer to what I want out of the box. Now, I find Windows extremely easy to get running, but some of that is probably because I've done it 1,000 times.

You are probably asking "How does this rambling old man think this relates to the topic at hand?" by now.

The point is, I would want to look for something like Mint. I don't really want to figure out again how to install MP3 support and make it work. I don't want to do all the 100 little things I had to do to get Ubuntu to be more like Mint.

So, I guess I want to ask a question that is a subset of the one proposed by this forum. What distro offers something approaching the ease of setup Mint provides? Anything?

[asymmetros]

So, I guess I want to ask a question that is a subset of the one proposed by this forum. What distro offers something approaching the ease of setup Mint provides? Anything?

http://distrowatch.com/search.php?categ ... tus=Active

I have great respect for all the developers who seem to take into account that some of us don't have the latest hardware, don't go out and buy the latest gadget, and aren't convinced that bigger numbers mean better systems. The other aspect of course is the amount of landfill and pollution being directly caused by bloated programming and OSs/distros that effectively force old hardware into obsolescence. This means that certain 'free' operating systems become affordable only to those who can afford the latest hardware that can support all the bloat. And why is it seemingly impossible to buy a blank laptop/netbook? GRRR!!!!!

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