Distro Recommendation Needed

GhostlyPea

GhostlyPea

GhostlyPea

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Hi guys,

Looking at gettign an Acer One and using a different distro on it. The problem is that I can't find one that is a very lightweight GUI edition but without bundled stuff like word processors, media players etc. All I want is basically the shell and then the ability to add in everything else after. So far I've seen slax, DSL and xUbuntu but they still all seem to come with stuff (althogh slax and xubuntu are looking good). Any recommendations on the least cluttered distro? Preferably something reasonably easy to add apps too aswell :)


Cheers

- Pea0n
 
Ive never added or removed any GUIs or changed them in Linux so I'm not really sure how you mean by DE/WM, got a link?

Cheers for Gentoo and Arch, saw that around and I'll give them a closer look :D

Keep them coming, I'll probably try a few out

- Pea0n
 
Well i just had a look over a few guides for installing Arch with a USB stick, unfortunatly it seems to show how to set the USB stick up form linux rather than from XP so I'm lost on how to do that. Gentoo looks interesting but I get a feeling arch would be very very good for my needs if i got it working.

-Pea0n
 
Cheers for the link Ethics,

Jestar - Realised that with the link. The console commands it was using were confusing me as I had no idea what it was doing, but if it only has to be extracted to a USB stick then thats defo easy enough :)

I'll download both tonight and have a play in VirtualBox to see whats hot and not. Just need to wait until pay-day before I can grab my One now :(

- Pea0n
 
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