[sf-lug] alternatives to ubuntu?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Akkana Peck (akkana at shallowsky.com):

> Or run without any login manager at all -- you can log in and start
> X without any of that, and you can even automate the process so
> you're automatically logged in at boot time.

Well, yeah, I did 'startx' for years.  I vaguely recall that there 
are some security advantages to xdm (and presumably more recent kin), 
and, if it's a machine where you're usually going to be needing X11,
dispensing with the repeated X11 startup time of 'startx' becomes A Good
Thing.