I really thought that I was registered here. I've visited often enough, to find information. Alas - when I attempted to log in, I found that I wasn't a member after all! Whatever - obviously, I'm registered now!
I'm a long time distro hopper. Basically, I hopped to whichever distro was offering the best Enlightenment support, several times. I liked Sabayon, but their support for E had slipped some. So, I downloaded a Sparky E release. I was surprised just a few days ago, to find that that installation was TWO YEARS OLD! Yes, I've been driving Sparky for two years, and a couple weeks.
Well, next up, I happened upon a nice buy on a server board, WITH two Opterons, WITH 24 gig of memory. Package deal, for less than $200. I bought it.
Naturally, a server board makes a kick-ass workstation. So - which distro am I going to install? Hmmmm - I look around, and it appears that Sparky still gives as good support as anyone else.
Installed Sparky from the 3.6 E19 disk, then I promptly borked it while playing around with dist-upgrade, installing proprietary Nvidia driver, AND installing the Liquorix 4.1 kernel. Somehow, I did something wrong, and compounded it by telling apt-get to autoremove and autoclean stuff. Yep, I borked it - apt-get can no longer resolve a working system for me.
Oh, but looky! Pavroo has just released a new Sparky 4 E19 for me!
Downloading now. Maybe I won't screw it up this time.
Thank you, Pavroo - and any/all behind_the_scenes people!