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tarakbumba

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From: Turkiye

Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 72

Thinking about a distro that fits to my needs

Hi, i'm thinking about a fast, simple, user friendly and powerful distro for last couple of weeks. I definetly love ArchLinux; but somehow it doesn't fit to my needs. I'm neither programmer nor linux guru. So, i can only wish something from angels
I think, a distro should have futures i listed below,
- Easily understable, letting users to compile sources or install binaries, package management system (Arch already have this: ABS, pacman)
-Rolling realese (Arch already have this)
-Distro should develop new things for Linux or eyecandy (openSuse do this, actively contributes to KDE)
-Large community support (Arch community is great)
-Auto detect hardware, easily configure them; like mandriva's harddrake
-Users can select confuguring their system manully or via gui's with simple clicks (I know what KISS means, but i wish ArchLinux have an option to using gui, may be other than official developers, programmer users can port drakx-tools to arch)
-Good locale support
-Run fast and responsive (Arch is great on this)
-A distro doesn't install bunch of unneeded stuff for a single application (rpm based distros blows hard drive with this issue, i hate rpms!)
-For me, a distro should officially support KDE 3.x at least that time KDE 4.x become more mature

Hey, these are only my thoughts. Still Arch is best distro for me...

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Thinking about a distro that fits to my needs

-Distro should develop new things for Linux or eyecandy

Users should develop new things for Linux or eyecandy. Start programming. (google summer of code for ex.)

-Auto detect hardware, easily configure them; like mandriva's harddrake

Kde and kernel does this.

-Users can select confuguring their system manully or via gui's with simple clicks.

Shaman, Arxin, Tribe

-Good locale support

?

-For me, a distro should officially support KDE 3.x at least that time KDE 4.x become more mature

kde4 alltheway, besides 85% of arch/kde users use kdemod anyways, which supports kde3.

http://www.chakra-project.org/

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