Hi All, I think, the majority of people opting to use a non-mainstream OS like GNU/Linux do so for a good reason, and those who use it to look geeky and to impress, simply cannot persevere when problems crop up and take a good deal of effort to resolve. In the latter type of users, I include 'geeky' youths who want to impress their peers, and also any adult who is temporarily deeply disappointed with Windows.
The particular reason I have in mind, is choice. Linux users who persevere for years using it, choose Linux to use an OS and a tool kit that is different from other OSs and toolkits. That is why they stick with it, as choice is their deep lying motivator. Edward On 02/11/2015, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:57:25 +0300 > Mitt Green <mitt_gr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> There are some more I believe. As Fredrik Rinnestam of >> CRUX said >> "Switch to systemd? over my dead body", we can count this. > > Thanks. I didn't know this. I'll check it out. > >> >> I think we should count NetBSD here as the folks there >> try to maintain the philosophy, keeping things simple >> and minimal. I will write to them about it. > > If you can actually install a functional NetBSD, you're much more > skilled than I. After about 4 hours playing whack-a-mole with NetBSD > problems precluding a barely functional machine, I gave up. > >> >> There is also Alpine which uses BusyBox. > > I didn't know this. Thanks. I'll check it out. > >> >> There is also Puppy/Quirky >> (http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00114). > > The last time I used Puppy it was a different kind of Linux: Not much > available software: Its claim to fame is it could run in tiny RAM > situations. But you wouldn't run your business on it. > > Thanks for the excellent info! > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > October 2015 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
