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The best GNU/Linux distros of the year 2000
- acangiano 18y agoWhat a major flashback. It's been only 9 years, and it feels like an eternity.
- scorxn 18y ago2000 was about the time I discovered Linux. Looking back, it's jarring how much the desktop distros tried to emulate the latest version of Windows. I think the current distros are guilty of the same mistake. Rather than trying to advance the desktop environment, they (Gnome + KDE) simply reproduce the familiar behaviors of Windows and OS X. I can understand the strategy. But after 9 years, are converts actually being made, or would it be more effective to innovate?
- robotron 18y agoI don't get that feeling of copycatting from something like Ubuntu with a few Compiz bells-and-whistles turned on. Instead I get Windows and Mac users drooling at the eye candy. Granted, that's just eye candy. Netbook remix looks awesome, for what it is, also.
- zacharydanger 18y agoNetbook remix is awesome. Makes the 7" screen on my eee much more useable.
- martey 18y agoI think it's interesting that it is difficult to tell the distros apart from the screenshots. Regardless of whether they are running KDE or Gnome, they all have similar panels and window themes.
- jballanc 18y agoNo Slackware? I declare the list incomplete!
- jbarciauskas 18y agoI love the fact that all distros were on a 2.2 kernel and debian was on 2.0. Some things never change.
- jonny_noog 18y agoWell you could always have just used testing like the rest of us. :)