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Rotaj
December 4th, 2008, 01:01 AM
Could someone recommend a rolling release distro that uses E17?
Grant A.
December 4th, 2008, 01:03 AM
Why use a new distro? You could afterall, just compile it yourself.
smartboyathome
December 4th, 2008, 01:15 AM
Well, I use E17 on Arch Linux and its very good and stable. You could also try OzOs (based off of Ubuntu) or use Rui Pais's scripts (which are used to build OzOs).
JawsThemeSwimming428
December 4th, 2008, 01:26 AM
You could give Elive a try, although it isn't rolling release. Neither is Ozos. Arch and Debian Sid are the two main rolling release distros I know of and you could install E17 in them.
smartboyathome
December 4th, 2008, 01:28 AM
You could give Elive a try, although it isn't rolling release. Neither is Ozos. Arch and Debian Sid are the two main rolling release distros I know of and you could install E17 in them.

Elive is pay-for btw, unless you go with one of their development releases.
Rotaj
December 4th, 2008, 01:44 AM
You could give Elive a try, although it isn't rolling release. Neither is Ozos. Arch and Debian Sid are the two main rolling release distros I know of and you could install E17 in them.

By Debian Sid do you mean sidux?
Rotaj
December 4th, 2008, 01:59 AM
Smartboy,
Thanks for the suggestions. I have been looking into OS choices for a new Acer Aspire One. Read Tux Aubrey's post (http://cafelinux.org/forum/index.php?topic=1678.0). Great work!
Still undecided.

Has anyone heard anything about the Slack branch of distros with E17?
smartboyathome
December 4th, 2008, 05:56 AM
Smartboy,
Thanks for the suggestions. I have been looking into OS choices for a new Acer Aspire One. Read Tux Aubrey's post (http://cafelinux.org/forum/index.php?topic=1678.0). Great work!
Still undecided.

Has anyone heard anything about the Slack branch of distros with E17?

Well, there is the slacke17 (http://slacke17.sourceforge.net/) project, but the images are really old. I would recommend just sticking with Arch if you want rolling release with stable snapshots. It really seems like the best choice to avoid the frequent SVN breakages that stuff like OzOs suffers from.
kazuya
December 4th, 2008, 04:19 PM
I may give archlinux a run again. It worked great for me when I used it. I just love zenwalk though. Zen and arch give me similar benefits. Zen has slightly more ease of installing packages due gui package manager. Else, arch is a little better for me or they are tied.
basenvironment
December 4th, 2008, 06:18 PM
Debian Testing/Unstable with e17 from the experimental repo!
smartboyathome
December 4th, 2008, 07:29 PM
I may give archlinux a run again. It worked great for me when I used it. I just love zenwalk though. Zen and arch give me similar benefits. Zen has slightly more ease of installing packages due gui package manager. Else, arch is a little better for me or they are tied.

Have you ever tried gtkPacman or Shaman? I find them both great, one's just better when using gtk and the other when using Qt. :)