Distro

Tech support being its typical "send around the block" self - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Gave up on Suse, running Slitaz on the mininote now - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Also, I heartily welcome back the ability to actually theme the damn window manager. The choices made upstream to limit the kinds of customization that are available in metacity never sat well with me. - Andy Bakun

It's too bad though that the recent reports of compiz's death may not be exaggerated. - Andy Bakun

If it's the stock ISC bind, 'rndc reload' should do it. - Andy Bakun

Thanks Andy. - Tom Ribbens

About, "Use your computers in a lightweight but fully featured way using less energy. The operating will run on low power computers and recycled systems keeping you working and playing with all the features you expect.." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cant decide whether it is cool or a marketing trick - anyone know more? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

to my best knowledge (from what one can get in core sw for maemo.org), power management state of things is still very limited science in both open- and close-sourced worlds, with mobile archs little bit closer to cold harsh reality for obvious reasons (needs of reqs and HW support is better). - A.T.

a) freebsd (or if it has to be linux, debian) b) vector linux, or possibly mint c)opensolaris at the moment, slackware before - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

b) Ubuntu had been tested on non-geek wife and some other non-tech relatives -- works like charm. - A.T.

c) and d) -- both Ubuntu / Debian family - A.T.

About, "Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities." - Czar from Bookmarklet

always been curious about that one, not tested it yet though - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

about, "a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community." - Czar from Bookmarklet

I'm going to be installing this on my laptop shortly. - Sarah Peterman

"Small and live Unix distributions" - Sarah Peterman from Bookmarklet

About, "the first Linux based distribution that provides ease of use out of the box. It provides all multimedia codecs out of the box, an easy to use and simplified interface. Great compatibility with older hardware to help you extend your hardware and software investments..." - Czar from Bookmarklet

Added DistroWatch.com: Distributions RSS - Czar

About, "a free, open source operating system suitable for both your desktop and laptop. Whether you use it at home, at school, or at work, Xubuntu contains all the applications you will ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools." - Czar

cite, "The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides free and easy access to openSUSE. Here you can find and join a community of users and developers, who all have the same goal in mind — to create and distribute the world's most usable Linux. openSUSE also provides the base for Novell's award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "Linux Mint is one of the surprise packages of the past year. Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, it has now developed into one of the most user-friendly distributions on the market - complete with a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, a web-based package installation interface, and a number of different editions. Perhaps most importantly, this is one project where the developers and users are in constant interaction, resulting in dramatic, user-driven improvements with every new release. DistroWatch has spoken to the founder and lead developer of Linux Mint, Clement Lefebvre, about the history of the distribution." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "The Linux desktop that's easy to try and easy to keep" - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "If you're searching for an operating system that allows you to: be free, communicate with the whole world, read, write, produce art, music, drawings, images, etc., as well as use the same kind of stuff produced by a worldwide community and, better yet, fastly, simply and safely share them all," - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development." - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX. " - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "Slitaz 1.0 does provide a fast, responsive, stable, and workable GNU/Linux system usable on older PCs. It also seems to be a great distribution to use as a rescue CD or to use as a baseline GNU/Linux system where you choose what additional packages you want to include." (http://www.linux.com/feature...) - Czar from Bookmarklet

cite, "Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more." - Czar from Bookmarklet