I decided to go for an installation of:
proto-refracta-jessie-with-sysvinit-t440.html
just to test it (in general, said more than once, i am done with Debian and Debian based).
Worked good, like usual.
On horrible specs (Pentium 3 with a Gig of CPU and 256 of RAM).
IBM Thinkpad, in case that is helpful.
Installer crashed first time, during gparted, but i am pretty sure due to the specs.
One thing:
It has a savage video care.
I had one like that way back, 2 or 3 years ago, also a stoneage machine (i made a thread over at forums debian, pretty sure i finally went back to lenny, and that solved the problem).
Anyone has a *really quick* solution, idea?
With such a crap PC i am not willing to invest any work, GUI is crap on it anyway. If no *quick* solution, workaround is to be found, i will go CLI, enable popularity-contest (to make sure they get feedback about systemd) and call it a day.
Short version:
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No bad experiences with the sysv-refracta.
Still liking look&feel, works well on very low-specs machines.
Everything like usual.