Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist

[joe at actionline.com]

I actually have two "old reliable" systems.  One is about a 5-year-old
Mandriva, but unfailingly stable). The other is PCLinuxOS 2009 with KDE
3.5. It is by far the best system I have ever used or seen. I have
PCLinuxOS 2011 on another system, just updated it today to 2012, and the
latest version of KDE 4 is still a frustrating annoyance.  I've tried
Gnome, LXDE, and several others, none of which I like.

I've tried dozens of other supposedly stable distros, never anything "new"
and cutting edge.  I prefer Redhat based. Never have liked ubuntu/kbuntu
based systems, though I've tried several. Except an older verion of Mint.
But even the newer versions of Mint seem too cluttered, glitzy, and
bloated to me.  KDE 3.5 was excellent.  KDE 4 has always been a
frustrating disaster imho.


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> I was thinking the same question.
>
> If VB won't run on "old reliable", then find a "new reliable" that's as
> close as possible to "old reliable" (afa the desktop goes), run "new
> reliable" on bare iron, and run everything else as VMs under VBox.
>
> FWIW, I've been running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS since 10.10 or so and it's been
> very stable. I run VMware Player instead of VirtualBox, but I think
> you'd be just as happy with VB.
>
> Maybe your problem is that the new distros you've been trying are too
> new. Seriously. Pick one that's had a chance for the bugs to settle out
> of it. Like I said, I didn't install Ubuntu 10.4 until 6 months or so
> after it came out. The bleeding edge is not a pleasant place to be for
> many of us.
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
> On 03/06/2012 06:53 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> What was old reliable?
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2012 5:39 PM, <joe at actionline.com <mailto:joe at actionline.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     == Eric last wrote:
>>      > You certainly do want your base OS which runs on the HW to be as
>>      > reliable as possible. Any reason why you can't put your "old
>>     reliable"
>>      > distro on the bare iron, then run VB on that with everything else
>> as
>>      > VMs? That's what I would shoot for.
>>
>>     It is my understanding that my "old reliable" system is too old to
>> get
>>     VB/VM working on it.  I can do everything else on "old reliable" and
>> it
>>     works incredibly much faster, more efficiently, and absolutely
>> without
>>     problems ... whereas every newer distro I have tried has given me
>>     fits.  I
>>     detest KDE4 and I detest "updates" that inevitably break something.
>> I
>>     just did an "update" on one of my newer boxes and, sure enough after
>> the
>>     "update" the system locked up, the keyboard lights started blinking,
>>     and I
>>     had a dickens of a time getting it to boot up.  I have tried more
>> than a
>>     dozen different "newer" distros and every time ... EVERY time, that
>> has
>>     brought annoying problems.
>>
>>     Whereas "old reliable" (which I have on three other boxes) NEVER
>> breaks,
>>     NEVER fails me, NEVER causes me any frustrations.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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