[PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

Dave Lien - W7DAL W7DAL at comcast.net
Sat May 12 02:35:00 UTC 2018


TNX Wayne. I follow Distrowatch from time to time and just downloaded 
manjaro which is the current favorite. Am installing it now to see what 
all the noise is about. -Dave.


On 5/11/2018 7:14 PM, Wayne van Loon wrote:
> Here <https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major> is a link to 
> DistroWatch's top 10 distros where you can read their take on a few 
> old line distros including Slackware that is being discussed here.
> Wayne
>
>
> On 05/11/2018 06:55 PM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:
>> Let me ask a simple minded question:
>>
>> I've been running Linux for maybe 20 years. Nothing fancy, office 
>> apps mostly, and went through all the early update struggles, etc. 
>> Played with virtually every version along the way eventually settling 
>> on Ubuntu until that silly debacle. Then cut over to MINT which does 
>> everything I want and more. Also I note that MINT was the most 
>> downloaded version for years until recently. There must be a reason?
>>
>> QUESTION: What is so unique about some of the other old major Linux 
>> lines that make them so important to some users? Or is is mostly a 
>> matter of habit and not wanting to change?
>>
>> TNX. Dave.
>>
>>
>> On 5/11/2018 6:21 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>>> On 05/10/2018 09:06 PM, elcaseti wrote:
>>>> The fact that Slackware is still using KDE4 is very appealing to 
>>>> me.  My
>>>> command line skills are not at the Slackware level, but I bet I can 
>>>> find a
>>>> Slackware-based distro that is more to my liking that's still using 
>>>> KDE4.
>>>>
>>>> Too bad Slax moved away from KDE.  I used to use Slax for certain 
>>>> simple
>>>> tasks.  I might still use Slax for some things, & I don't mind that 
>>>> it's
>>>> switched to a Debian base, but it's not going to be my main distro.
>>>>
>>>> It seems like Vector is not a very active project anymore. I tried KDE
>>>> Neon about a year ago, & found it to have quite a few broken 
>>>> things.  I
>>>> might even try Gecko KDE Plasma, since I've not really given 
>>>> OpenSuse much
>>>> of a chance.
>>>>
>>> The following Slackware derived distros with available KDE are still
>>> active. I haven't used them in a while (I always go back to the pure
>>> source), but they track the Slackware core pretty closely while adding
>>> ease of use features.  Most Slackware derivatives are tweaked, "trimmed
>>> down" to reduce memory and hard drive space.
>>>
>>> Zenwalk: http://zenwalk.org/
>>> XFCE is the default, with KDE available via their package manager.
>>> Binary compatible with may other Slackware package sources.
>>>
>>> Salix: https://www.salixos.org/
>>> XFCE is the default, with KDE available via their package manager.
>>> Binary compatible with may other Slackware package sources.
>>>
>>> Porteus: http://www.porteus.org/
>>> Started out as a community remix of SLAX.  Packages consist of modules
>>> and can be installed and run from USB flash drive, flash card or CD
>>> (live distro) or hard drive. There are utilities to convert Slackware
>>> packages into installable modules.  It is designed to be portable. They
>>> do recommend Slackware if you want to install a full uncompressed
>>> version to an internal hard drive.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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