Quoting Erik Christiansen (dvalin@internode.on.net):
I was unaware then, and throughout the intervening decade, until I read your post today. One Live CD, and one Install CD, were all that I bumped into. (For some, the focus is on using, not futzing. [1] If the chicken wings aren't in the bain-marie, then they aren't sold.)
One becomes a bit motivated to research alternatives upon being handed a new system whose mass-storage HBA isn't supported by the regular installer image. ;-> You'll notice that a number of the third-party images for Debian were evidently prompted by such hardware issues: All it took was for someone to say 'I think I know how this is installer gets built. Let's remaster it with a better kernel and an updated initrd.' [Aptosid installer:]
A quick glance at their site left me with the impression that it is KDE oriented. (kI kan't kstand kKDE, kespecially kthe kommand knames. :-)
Actually, the KDE image is one of _two_ Aptosid editions, the other being Xfce4. (Both images also include the Fluxbox window manager.) When I most recently rebuilt my workstation, I had no interest in either KDE or Xfce, so I installed the Xfce edition of Aptoid and then did: # mv /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager /usr/local/ # apt-get install wmaker I believe that the latter action set Window Maker automatically as the default window manager, but you can always do # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager to check and verify. I can't remember whether I even bothered removing the Xfce packages, or if I just ignored them. There was a bit more to it, e.g., I had to work around the fact that the accursed motherboard used a Broadcom 57xx 'Tigon 3' ethernet chipset requiring a non-free firmware image not included in Aptosid's (or Debian's) installers. Full account is here: http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2011-May/006209.html