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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100103/b4cdc699/attachment.htm