Re: Is there a VERY minimalist "Pure Blend"
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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Likewise.
> Quoting Richard Owlett (2014-11-23 15:42:32)
>> My ideal system would have a kernel, Gnome2, apt-get/synaptic,
>> SeaMonkey and not much else.
GNOME 2 is no longer in Debian, but the fork of it called MATE is:
https://packages.debian.org/mate-desktop-environment
Iceape (Debian's version of SeaMonkey) was removed from Debian because
it wasn't security-supported:
https://bugs.debian.org/736165
You could use Iceweasel (aka Firefox) or netsurf as replacements.
> Possibly non-pure derivations of Debian exists which suits your
> needs adequately, perhaps others on this list know more and
> can give suggestions for that
There are numerous Debian derivatives, some are listed here:
https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
As far as 'minimalist' distributions go, Crunchbang comes to mind.
http://crunchbang.org/
> (Paul Wise, are you listening?).
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