On Saturday 01 November 2014 16:03:54 you wrote:
> 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
>

I use Debian stable, and know it and the tools very well.  Knowing the 
tools , having a local mirorr, is as important as what flavor I use.

That said, one interesting OS I am testing is Open Indiana, one of the 
successors to Open Solaris. The default DE is Gnome2, but kde3.5.10 is 
available. 

I would test OpenBSD and TDE when available. 

Its about the apps not the desktop :-)

-- 
Peace,

Greg