Well, All I want is to have a very simple working system in front of me. I was satisfied with SuSE a couple of years ago, but then it turns out that it is not any longer convenient to use since it was "captured" by Novel. Open SuSE is not bad also, but it broke my hart already. To be honest I don't like to get contact with a free commercial OSes. They are ridiculous. Then Slackware was the next choice, and I was very happy, to make it running on my Samsung X-20. It also was my very favorite distribution long time ago, and it was just working. I do not remember why should I change my mind to try other distribution after that. May be I only felt to rigid. I had everything which I did not use or only seldom. Slackware had (or may be officially still has) no support to 64bit procs. I had to think about good distro to be installed in my server. After Slamd64, which was not working properly, I tried Debian on it. With it, I almost have no problem until now. Apt system is very powerful. It was just running fine. Maybe this was the reason why I wanted to install Debian also in my notebook. It was running very good, except the network setting which I didn't like. But of course it is not the fault of Debian. For this I would rather writing my own script. My X-20 was running under it, using only about 3Gigs of space, until now. It is perfect! Time is taken away, and I feel my X-20 is getting older. Besides I had a better reason: My son occupied it. I bought another notebook for me, an Amilo Si-1520. I directly deleted Vista on it, and installed Debian (Etch). It was a very clean installation. The problem was only wlan ipw3945, but everything is available on the net. It was not a big deal to compile the module and activate the network. Network devices was disabled, except lo, and wlan was activated using my self-written script. Another problem was card reader, but I don't care, and don't use it until now. After a couple of months The system was swollen. I did too many apt-get install on it. I installed almost every garbages! I was starting to hate it, especially Debian's bad habit to delete everything when one deletes an important "unimportant-program", such as exim, a mail server. Why should a laptop has a mail server in it? It is just ridiculous! Out of curiosity, I tried Arch-Linux a couple of mounts after it. It worked also fine at the beginning. But then I found out that pacman is not as good as apt. It broke other program when I installed a software from repository. There was also an annoying problem: silly postscript problem. It is more than ridiculous! It is crazy! Arch-Linux is good when you want to learn how to make an OS work, but not to use it for your real work. Well, I gave up, and decided to go back to Debian. I tried Lenny, but it has problem with sound card. Yes, it is again not the fault of Debian, but alsa. Finally the conclusion is go back to Etch. It is the best for my notebook now, at least for the time being. But I am happy enough with my 1.9Gigs OS, 35 seconds booting time, installed in my notebook. No KDE, no complete gnome. Icewm is my best choice, light and simple. No perfect OS available, but it just perfect because I can try something on it!
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