Subj : Which Distro
To   : richardw
From : Ibanez
Date : Sat May 07 2005 08:04 pm

  Re: Which Distro
  By: richardw to Ibanez on Wed May 04 2005 11:25 am

 >   Re: Which Distro
 >   By: Ibanez to Angus Mcleod on Wed May 04 2005 01:13 am
 > 
 >  >  >  > so before i download FC3 is there another distro
 >  >  >  > that is better then that of Red Hats?
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Slackware is best!  Forget the rest...
 >  >
 >  > I prefer Gentoo, thanks ;)
 > 
 > I really like what I've read about Gentoo.  In a lot of ways, it reminds
 > me of FreeBSD.  I really need to check it out.
 > 

Yeah, Gentoo has some nice features (Portage, Portage, and Portage! :)

Installation is less painful for those with slower computers now that there are
prebuilt binaries of everything but the kernel. However, you loose tweakability
by using prebuilt binaries. (I know, most people don't care to do a system from
source). That said, even if you're a binary install type of person, Portage is
just a very nice package management system. :)

And if you have an Athlon XP 3000+ or P4 3Ghz and up, source compiles really
aren't that painful anymore timewise. I mean, it's not like it takes a week to
compile the OS now. ;)

My last install (about a year ago) took about 8 or so hours for the base system
and kernel to be compiled, installed, and the system made bootable (though I've
had extensive practice at the stage 1 install at this point so maybe I'm just
really good! ;)

The real bear is X and KDE/Gnome. That usually takes all day. :(

Oh and while I'm at it... Gentoo as a "n00b" friendly interface now (or I think
it's been released now). A ***GRAPHICAL INSTALLER***.

;)


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