glances

Granular Linux

2009-04-17

abandoned, disliked, glances, Granular Linux, Linux distributions, Linux distributions based on PCLinuxOS, Linux distributions based on Unity Linux, misadventures

Linux distributions + PCLinuxOS >

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=granular
https://web.archive.org/web/20200122090827/http://www.granularlinux.com/
https://granularproject.org/

I knew about Granular Linux only through Unity Linux. It ended up being a recommendation as a base system from which I could compile various window managers[doesn’t exist] for testing. Well, after having exhausted so many other distributions lately, I decided to give it a shot. Since I had been so dismissive of my earlier efforts, I decided to spend more time with this one.

2014-08-02 – It’s gone.
Was to have switched to Unity Linux, but I don’t think it did.

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Gentoo Linux, raising the hurdle

2009-04-17

documentation, glances, Linux, misadventures

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Termmen

2009-04-17

abandoned, application launchers, commandline software, freeware, glances, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > Application launchers >

http://zrajm.org/programs/termmen/ ^[ 1 ] was www.update.uu.se/~zrajm/programs/termmen/

A console keyboard-based menu for Zsh.

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was www.update.uu.se/~zrajm/programs/termmen/

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Caos Linux

2009-04-16

abandoned, glances, independent Linux distributions, Linux distributions, Linux distributions which do not use systemd

Linux distributions >

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Caos
http://www.caoslinux.org/

2015-05-15 – Discontinued

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NimbleX

2009-04-16

abandoned, glances, lightweight Linux distributions, Linux distributions, Linux distributions based on Slackware, Linux distributions which do not use systemd, Slackware

Linux distributions + Slackware >

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=NimbleX
http://nimblex.net/

2015-05-15 – Discontinued.
2014-08-02 – Inactive since 2010.

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Arch Linux

2009-04-16

Arch Linux, disliked, glances, independent Linux distributions, Linux distributions, Linux distributions which use systemd, misadventures

Linux distributions >
See also Linux distributions based on Arch Linux

(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arch
https://archlinux.org/

Appears to have a good philosophy. In reality it’s over-limited to the point of making life convenient for the developers at the expense of inconveniencing the users.

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Ion

2009-04-15

abandoned, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, hated, Linux software, open-source software, reviews, software, window managers

Software >

https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ ^[ 1 ] was http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

A keyboard-oriented window manager.

Clunky in places, and some things were non-obvious and needed some reading.

My hands hurt after using it for a little while, because the default hotkeys are Wrong. Heck, the defaults aren’t just “not for me”, the defaults are bad. Because of poor documentation, it’s too much work for me to figure out how to customize it the way I want.