Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey (DesktopLinux)

Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey (DesktopLinux)

Posted Aug 30, 2006 15:08 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
Parent article: Results from the 2006 Desktop Linux Survey (DesktopLinux)

I can't comment on Gentoo, having never seen it, much less worked with it, but I'm not at all surprised by Ubuntu's ranking. Again, I'm not (yet) a Ubuntu user, having been "wed" to RedHat since 1996 (v4.?) and currently on Fedora Core 5. Still, I will be moving to Ubuntu in the near future, for one reason: the ability to minimize "distribution bloat".

It's not that my workstation or laptops are resource-challenged (neither disk space nor RAM); rather, I'm tired of having programs and snippets of this GUI, or that GUI -- Gnome or KDE -- being installed, despite my deselecting either of those desktop managers.

I suspect that I'm not the only user who feels that s/he's lost control of what's sitting on their root partition.

Although I am in the process of installing DSL (Damn Small Linux) on my Compaq LTE Elite 4/75cx, I want a more mainstream distribution on my other hosts. This leads me to what one poster recently wrote on the DSL Users' Forum, the gist of which is: grab and install Ubuntu's "alternate" image, tweak /etc/apt/sources.list, then proceed to create a barebones installation; from there, continue using apt-get to install/remove what you want/don't want.

It might be possible to get there with a "server" installation from one or more Linux distributions, but until I read about doing so (or do so, myself), I think I'll go with the Ubuntu "alternate" solution.

Of special interest was that from the various Ubuntu releases, it was Ubuntu "vanilla" which came-out ahead of Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Thankfully, their "alternate" version will allow me to forego Gnome.

:-)

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