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Is there a good, lean, CrunchBang-like openbox distro that doesn't come with busybox by default? I have an older laptop I want to run Linux on as a secondary tinkering/development machine [i.e. I'd mainly have a minimal desktop, web browser and a lot of terminal sessions]. I don't have any real preference whether it's RPM or DPKG based. [Or I guess some other package manager - mainly I'd like to be able to pull down whatever APIs/tools/etc I might need pretty quickly]. Busybox is really cool for what it is, but I'd rather have a more full-featured set of the standard GNU tools [I was honestly a little surprised that 'lsof' wasn't part of Busybox].
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I'm trying to figure out what distro to use for my daily work. I realize, to a certain extent that's a dumb question, but whatever. I'm a grad student/programmer, and I spend a solid 75% of my computer time at the command line or in Emacs. I like farting around in Slackware, because it's a Unix-rear end Linux system, and coming at it from the perspective of a dude who does a ton of command line stuff, I like how every component can basically be configured in their respective text file; it feels simple and predictable to me. On the other hand, dealing with slackbuilds gets old really fast. I have a life to live, and I'd rather not piss it away staring at compiler output. Is there anything out there with a robust binary package management system that's still that level of dead-simple vanilla text configuration? I thought about just doing a server install of CentOS, and installing the packages I want, but the packages in the default repos are old as hell, and I really don't want to putz with adding a bunch of extra repos. Also it seems like, even at the default setup level, CentOS has a bunch of extra enterprise cruft that I'm not interested in. Realistically, all I need is the bleeding edge version of my compilers and text editor, a web browser, virtualbox, and Xmonad. DrankSinatra fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Thanks for the advice on distributions last week! I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's nice!
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