Re: Is there a VERY minimalist "Pure Blend"
Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
My statement was more to effect that Gnome3 is an unacceptable user
experience. As I don't have good connectivity I'll have to wait until Jessie
becomes stable and I can purchase a complete DVD set to try MATE. I may go
with LXDE but haven't determined if I can tweak it to do things "my way".
You can try jessie now, no need to wait a few months. Also no need to
purchase a full DVD set, the first DVD contains MATE. You can also
just apt-get install mate-desktop-environment over the Internet.
<snicker>
Would you *REALLY* care to download DVD(s) over a 56k dialup
connection? ??? ;/
Things I want are scattered over ALL DVDs of a set.
Just take as cast in reinforced concrete - NO downloading.
I find utilities to be such am personal choice that an installer should NOT
install a default selection.
Hmm, ok. I mostly saw Debian Pure Blends as ways to get the same
common setup as a group of people interested in a specific thing,
rather than a way to get a Debian system that is deeply personal and
different to everyone else. Jonas?
The gotcha is in defining "common setup as a group of people".
I find myself responsible for a few dozen machines with at least
3 quite diverse users.
1. My 3 personal machines
A. General browsing and email, generic typical personal
computing
B. Computationally intensive 'scientific' applications
1. preprocessing microphone signals for speech recognition
2. predicting arrival of storms by analyzing GPS signals
C. Support of other users
2. Supporting a friend who is typical of Microsoft and
Canonical market.
BUT he is annoyed by Microsoft's 'improvements' breaking
things.
3. My local church has multiple outreach programs
A. Enrichment for local elementary school children
B. Occupational training of neighborhood at-risk adults
I didn't find it claiming to meet some definition of "minimal".
The supposed speed is a side effect of it using a minimal window
manager (fluxbox) instead of GNOME.
In a loosely related thread in another list, I've been pointed to
a script for creating one person's "minimal" install using
debootstrap. He had much different goals, but it's organized such
that for each goal I can substitute my goal. More careful
examination may also identify my error(s) in my first attempt.
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