LIBERTÉ...

Have you tried Pisi Linux. I only heard about it recently. I installed it a couple days ago and it seems to be really nice. The documentation is a little flaky because of the default language but the website is intuitively designed to cater for several languages.
The installer, Yali, needs a little work in regard to partitioning i personally think. The bootloader options left a little to be desired, and it failed to format the partition i picked out. I had to do it in gparted and try to install again. They system is running smoothly though. Pisi is working nice, and the repo has a more in it than i initially expected. Google earth is the only program i've wanted that's not in there, but that's due to licensing or something, and it is possible to install it via other means.

I haven't searched the thread but is BT in here?

aptosid (formerly sidux) http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=aptosid



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what is that ?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=BT+Linux

I am willing to distro-hop forever. My first 'Linux' was RH back before they went RHEL/fedora, and I owe the RH guys a LOT. (We all do!)

What I miss are the really great OS options that should have gone on to greater things. Coherant: the true Unix for i386 by the Mark Williams group. MPM-II, that ran CPM programs in a multitasking, multiuser envirnment before Microsoft was founded (and, according to some, losted). OS/2 should have expanded and gone more fully GUI, but the MS debacle soured IBM on even considering that investment. Platforms like Amiga and the Interact that had superior engineering but lost in the business centers and marketplace.

Nothing wrong with the toys we got now, but MAN I loved and miss that stuff!

Don't know if this "GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline" has been posted yet (sorry if so:) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post5283796
link in the link...

Aptosid's last release was almost 2 years ago. They used to release every 3 months.

Discontinued: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=commodore

Caldera Open Linux and SuSE pre-Novell

Went from Redhat 5.2 to Mandrake. I liked the fact I could buy a boxed set in the computer stores. Went to a Linux demo and was given a Caldera cd, by the company (before they started suing their customers). After a bad Mandrake experience (the purchased product "included support", which I never got) I played around with a few different ones, before switching to Suse (again, boxed edition).
I liked having the manuals for times when there were internet issues.
There have been others. Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Netbook remix (IMHO, Windows on Netbooks, pretty well killed that). Gos (sold on Walmart Linux computers), and a few others (want to see a preinstalled base readily available).

It has got to be less about the distro, and more about useable programs and do I want to play with a new desktop, to learn. (like E now, but it still seems to have some issues, that LXDE is my main/fallback one)

Corel. It was going places! What a shame...

Fuduntu. I almost thought that I hadn't been around long enough to remember a distro which was discontinued, but I do remember this one.

You can blame microsoft for that... actually, the blame falls on corel's management for taking microsoft's money. Shortly after mickeysoft made a $135 million Dollar (Canandian) "investment" in corel, corel linux and wordperfect for linux disappeared without a whisper.

Not quite dead but 'resting' is D.S.L. (Damn Small Linux), superceded for me by TinyCore Linux, which is produced by one of the original D.S.L. team for more modern equipment.