Im partial to Arch Linux, the suckless stack, mutt for email, mplayer2 for audio/video, wpa_supplicant/netcfg for networking. I find its pretty easy to slim your install down if you're willing to give up your GUI tools. If you need a filemanager, PCManfm is pretty lightweight and lacks the dependency tree of nautilus.
If you must use a full "desktop" I'd vote for XFCE and if you argue systemd sucks too much you can opt to check out Crux which arch is based on, its a little more "elite," relies on a knowledge of ports and requires a bit more configuration but if you are up for it, it is much more minimal. There really isn't a perfect "minimal" distro in my experience, I'd aim for whats comfortable for you to use and fits your workflow. Good luck On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 10:18:03AM +0000, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:50:04 +0100 > Hugues Moretto-Viry <hugues.more...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thank you for these many interesting comments. > > I was looking for a secondary distributions for desktop usage. And I will > > try FreeBSD soon. > > > > Regards. > > minimal or desktop... i could almost say 'pick one'. the catch is 'desktop' > is a really broad church; for me it means a web browser, eagle mode, wine, a > media player or two, as well as 9vx or drawterm. many others wouldn't want > wine but would want a more mainstream filing manager which then requires file > associations and other sophistications and before long you end up with a full > gnome or kde. define what 'desktop' means to you and you can better pick your > system. > > if in fact you do want a conventional filing manager then you may be happy > with puppy linux. there are many different 'puppies' based on different linux > distributions which allows you to pick many of your requirements by distro > while knowing it will be pared down to a minimum and paired with a very > lightweight desktop... if that makes sense. > > -- > Developing the austere intellectual discipline of keeping things > sufficiently simple is in this environment a formidable challenge, > both technically and educationally. > -- Dijstraka, EWD898, 1984 > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Simply the Best Information on Hotels Of New York Here! > http://click.lavabit.com/uqnnjupr7e8ugzhpjw8b66dacrapopp6ff39w1ho8ab6c6si689b/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________
