On 11/19/2011 1:31 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > Although there are hundreds of Linux distros, I still see some unpopulated and underpopulated niches. The ones I see are: > 1. Lightweight user-friendly distros with large repositories: 1. Use Ubuntu alternate CD to install a base system 2. ??? 3. Profit Ubuntu doesn't force anyone to install tons of software; it only installs that much by default. If you don't select any extra meta-packages during the install software part, you get a pretty good base system. This is probably true of any major distro, but Ubuntu is the most popular and it definitely fits the "user-friendly" and "large repos" qualifications. LXDE is pretty lightweight (not as minimalistic as some DEs, but still much lighter than KDE or Gnome) AFAICT, so if you consider apt-get too user-unfriendly, go with Lubuntu, which will install LXDE for you. Personally, I think there are /way/ too many distros and that effort should really be going into teaching users how to customize their systems rather than making distros to fit niches.