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Where is your Linux home?

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clivesay:
What Linux OS occupies the majority of your hard drive space?

For me it's sidux. I've been running it for a couple years now. For a full KDE distro it is very fast and sid allows me to have mostly current apps. The sidux devs do a great job of almost making sid feel stable as etch.

Sidux stopped my distro hopping.

Chris

mikshaw:
The largest amount of space taken up by an OS is with Debian Etch.  I haven't booted it more than a few times so far, though, because it's a pain in the groin to download packages on a winmodem dialup, particularly when I have to download them with a different OS, reboot, attempt to install, and reboot again to download dependancies for the package I just tried to install. It probably would have been much easier to simply  mail-order the complete CD set.

I use DSL about 99% of the time.

I still haven't found my ideal distro.

roberts:
I "eat my own dog food" !

Really, I just don't have the patience to wait for KDE or Gnome.
I find most Linux distributions getting to large for my old hardware.

Or perhaps, I am just too much of a control freak! Smaller, re-factor, no smaller still!

I do have to admit, I used Finnix to bootstrap the development of Tiny Core.

dmoerner:
I use Sidux with KDE on my laptop and plain Sid with GNOME and eyecandy on my desktop.

Then again, I maintain pekwm and tint2 and have ITPs against ipager and transset-df in Debian so you can tell where my real sympathies lie.

Tinycore is residing on a spare Dell test machine at the moment.

softwaregurl:
I have to agree Etch.  A 3 gig partition filled almost instantly.  I have to manualy delete the package cache (25% of the disk usage) and when the drive filled up I had to use DSL to delete the .deb's because It refused to let me log in as root.  I've seen some critisism of the latest version of Gnome and I have to agree that It takes away a lot of my power over my computer.  I can't type the name of a hidden file or make it show me hidden files evidently.   I find myself willing to put out the effort so I control my computers instead of my computers controling me.  Thats why my car for the last 9 years is one built in the early 60's.  No computer controling it or me and it has never left me stranded. There is a place for wiindowsesk, idiot proof, Linux distros for casual users and they help further the idea of free software to the masses, but it's just not for me.  I have developed a philosophy about computers.   Computers are probably the most valuable tool that the human race has ever had.  But they are just that, a tool.  They are not the end-all be-all of our existance and should not be a requirement for the basic requirements of life as I leared them in school... food, shelter and clothing.

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