[FYI] Absolute Linux 11

seamonkey

http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/

windrose

A customized Slackware distribution:

        * icewm/ROX_Filer as a window/file manager combination

              Very lightweight and responsive. Uses Fluxbox/Fox PathFinder as an alternative or backup


        * Desktop-oriented software

              Server software, emacs and many applications desktop uses have no need for or interest in are skipped while stuff like Azureus(bittorrent), K3B (CD-burning), MPlayer (movie/DVD player), Firefox-2.0 (browser), some real games and many other titles desktop users actually want are already there.


        * Preconfigured menus/shortcuts

              Not the kind of thing you would worry about when using a desktop environment like KDE, Windows or Gnome, But with a bare-bones window/file manager these things are not normally setup. When you add something you have to worry about making a menu item, a shortcut, setting the appropriate filetype action to be taken . . . it can be tedious. With Absolute, the menus/associations are already set up for the preinstalled applications (and even for some that are not yet -- like OpenOffice.) So you get the raw speed of a lightweight desktop without any of the inconvenience.


        * Time-saving utilities

              Slackware is wonderful, don't get me wrong -- but to new users the configuration and maintenance can be time-consuming and frustrating. Rather than try to create an all-in-one solution with tons of processing overhead, like KDE and others -- Absolute is still controlled completely by the same simple text files that Slackware uses, but several small utilities were made as a front end to these. For instance, there is one to make a new user with common rights and permissions to desktop stuff. Just put in a name and password, and the user is created. But you can still go in and edit group permissions and all the rest the same way as with a basic Slackware machine. But most folks, most of the time, will never have to bother.


        * Customized install

              Same BASIC text-based CD installer as Slackware, but package selection is NOT an option. All included packages are installed and take up about 1.8Gb of hard drive space. [My last install test, with the hard drive already partitioned, took me 15 minutes.] Sound and volume are preset on first boot if Alsa (the sound system) supports your sound card. The first time started you log in as root, make whatever users or configuration changes you would like, then go about your business.


        * Documentation

              This is often the most overlooked feature in Open-Source Software. But as you can see in the screenshot section, Absolute has a menu section that holds an extensive library of manuals for specific applications, as well as for the file and window managers and even more generally for Slackware (upon which Absolute is based) and Linux.

Jeff-cao

好像不支持中文啊，遗憾。呵呵

seamonkey

好像这里也有不少人用fluxbox的。

seamonkey

不过说实话，一个个定制版出来，真没意思。

kite

是呀，若要定制，用tagfile的方式装自己最小的slackware就好了。

dwan

Post by kite
是呀，若要定制，用tagfile的方式装自己最小的slackware就好了。

我觉得这些定制版还是有存在的必要的，我就打算把里面fluxbox的theme找出来

hujy

单位有许多低配置的电脑（赛扬1.8G 128M），先装了vector5.8基础版不满意速度，在distrowatch中搜到了这个发行版，安装11.0.92版速度很不错使用流畅。简单的中文化配置了一下，装了wenquanyi点阵宋体和文鼎新宋，编译了fcitx，设置了/etc/profile.d/lang.sh。默认的icewm主题很漂亮，系统自带编译环境和一些常用软件，对于低配置内存不足的电脑来说是个不错的选择。

r00to

其实高配置的电脑也可以用,省下的资源可以干点别的..fluxbox.openbox.fvwm.都是很经典的WM,用好了,很顺手.