[PLUG] Status Report - was [ Specifying a minimalist/instuctional/??? Linux install]

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 18:19:34 UTC 2014


Part of me cringes when you discuss intentionally installing old stable
instead of current stable, just for future security/upgrade purposes.  Will
the group applying security fixes do it forever? (Long Term Support until
2016-02-?[193] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#cite_note-195> ) If you
don't like gnome 3 (me neither), there is cinnamon and mate available, as
well as LXDE and XFCE...

Although, I have no idea how much work migrating your preseed.cfg files to
wheezy would be...

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> Thank you for the many comments. Several got me thinking. I now
> have a better idea of how/why I got to where I am.
>
> In summary:
>    I am trying to move away from Windows (and similarly
> Canonical) - the "vendor
>    knows best" syndrome which yields excess baggage installed by
> default and
>    essential software missing.
>
>    I've settled on Debian (or a derivative).
>    The key features were:
>        1. large user base
>        2. large repertoire of precompiled software. (apt, synaptic)
>        3. others have found Debian & derivatives useful.
>        4. avoiding rolling releases
>    A short form of my personal goal is:
>         1. bring back *PERSONAL* to personal computing.
>         2. understand Linux internals
>         3. minimal number of modules
>
> In the near term I will base my work on Debian Squeeze:
>    1. I already have a collection of preseed.cfg files for
> several use cases.
>    2. I comes with Gnome2 *NOT* Gnome3.
>    3. Its d-i results better approximate some poorly specified goals.
>    4. There is a group applying security fixes.
>    5. Wheezy does not appear to offer any features of personal
> interest.
>       (suspect I will skip Jessie for same reason)
>
> I'll attempt to follow Nate Taylor's suggestion to follow
> http://live-systems.org/build/.
>
> It may not be an ideal approach. But any failures should be
> educational ;}
>
>
>
>
>
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