On 1 November 2014 14:00, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 1. November 2014 schrieb Robert Peters:
>> FreeBSD sounds like a possibility (and no systemd).  Thinking of
>> installing to see about running TDE in it.  But its boot image
>> requires a MBR primary or GUID partition.  So I would have to back up
>> my disk in order to convert to GUID partitioning...one thing leads to
>> another...will consider it...Robert
>
> I'm already evaluating FreeBSD for my desktop. As far as I've come it's working at least as good as wheezy on older laptops (T60 / T61 / X60 - I don't have newer). At the moment I have XFCE and FVWM running, but it's definitly missing a good file manager like konqueror.
>
> I'm verry happy that Fran�ois and Sl�vek put effort in getting TDE working on OpenBSD, so chances are I'll escape systemd :-)
>
> Nik


Another way to go is Gentoo, though it takes some work and close
attention to the installation manual.  I used it for a while ten years
ago and am looking at it again.  I wonder what  experience others have
had with it.
Robert