[Techtalk] Best substitute for Scientific Linux?

[mgmonza at iceland.freeshell.org]

Thank you, Ricardo.

Slackware seems a bit too techy for me when I looked at it decades ago, 
but this might be a reason to give it another try.  Debian has probably 
changed a lot since I last ran it 10 years ago too, so another thing to 
look at.

MG

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Ricardo Dalceno wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:48:57 -0300
> From: Ricardo Dalceno <rddalceno at gmail.com>
> To: mgmonza at iceland.freeshell.org
> Cc: Techtalk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Best substitute for Scientific Linux?
> 
> Hi MG,
>
> Well... I think you should try Debian.
> I use Slackware and it is very close to your experience (a Linux for
> keyboarders) but it lacks the huge list of software available in
> distributions like SciLin or Debian.
> IMHO, Debian is the nearest distro of what you want.
> I hope this is the kind of info/opinion you were looking for...
>
> ---
> Ricardo 'j0k3r'
>
> Em qua., 24 de fev. de 2021 às 04:39, <mgmonza at iceland.freeshell.org>
> escreveu:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> My mental home for the last six or so years was declared moribund in 2020
>> and dead by November.  They pulled the plug on him November 30th, 2020.
>> (hey, if the "Siri" I created is a breathy "Rouel", the "she" men use for
>> objects can be a "he" in my book)
>>
>> That was the Fermilabs Scientific Linux system 6x.  I loved everything
>> about it, but especially the way it catered to old keyboardists like me.
>> Vim-like, my fingers rarely had to reach for the mouse with SciLin 6x.
>>
>> All of the recent downloads of the 64x (also moribund) versions of
>> Scientific Linux have a ghastly desktop that requires this muriform
>> intervention.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a desktop environment that will let me select objects
>> on a 'desktop' by typing in 'first to however many letters they need to
>> make them unique'?  The latest Gnome for that 64x version of Scilinux
>> ignores keyboard letters and an altogether different install of Mint does
>> as well.  They won't even let me do an "alt/spacebar/m" to maximize!
>>
>> My flitting fingers and I thank you for considering this and for any
>> suggestions you might have to solve it.
>>
>> MG
>>
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