[GTALUG] Lightweight Linux Distributions and Graphics Drivers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> I would strongly suggest NOT using anything based on Debian unstable
> in these circumstances.  Unstable is meant for developers.  Sure, it's
> totally up-to-date when it's made available, but here's the problem:
> if they don't follow the Debian unstable repositories, they're not
> getting the updates they should.  If they DO follow the Debian
> unstable repositories, doing updates is like drinking from a fire hose
> - the package thrash is huge.  A few years back I installed a
> "lightweight" distro made on this model: it installed easily, using
> about 1G on a 2G partition.  It ran well.  Two months later I booted
> the machine and casually typed 'apt-get dist-upgrade' ... and the
> process filled the entire hard drive with packages and crashed the
> machine, without ever getting to actually doing the upgrade.

I have seen distributions (like mint) that are debian testing based.
I have never seen any based on unstable, so not sure which ones those
would be.

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Len SOrensen