FWIW, I also have had great experience with Crunchbang. It's a little old, but fantastic speed and beautifully simple interface 2010/1/3 <troythetechguy at gmail.com>: > Yesterday I installed Crunchbang on an older HP laptop that was running > Ubuntu 8.10 but getting slow. Thus far I've had a great experience with > Crunchbang, but time will be the true test of this distro. > http://crunchbanglinux.org/ > > Troy > > On Jan 1, 2010 10:24pm, "Jason Hsu, Linux User" <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > wrote: >> As an engineer, I like Ubuntu's strong repository (has Scilab and software >> for programming microcontrollers) but would prefer something more >> lightweight, especially since Ubuntu ends support of older versions while >> making newer versions more power-hungry. With each revision, some users of >> older computers get cut off and forced to another distro. >> >> >> >> I tried Debian, but it requires MUCH more tweaking to get it working, and >> it takes a LONG time to install it. I've been spoiled by Puppy Linux (so >> user-friendly and so lightweight), but it's software repository is weak, and >> I had difficulty with the Woof system (perhaps it will be better by 4.3.2 or >> 4.3.3). >> >> >> >> So what other Linux distros have a good repository like Ubuntu and are at >> least as user-friendly but are lighter-weight? What lightweight distros are >> compatible with the Ubuntu and/or Debian repository? Are Slackware and >> Gentoo distros I should consider? If they have strong repositories but are >> user-unfriendly, are there derivative distros that are compatible with their >> repositories? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Jason Hsu, Linux User jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Mark Katerberg