Subject: Re: LeeNocks distro's ....
From: Jason Jeremias (jasonj@uui-alaska.com)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 17:11:09 AKST
Well you're going to get many replies (bring on the Disto Wars :-).
My distro of choice is Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org). Its not
the easiest of disto's to install though. It's a source based
distribution, so it compiles everything from source code (completely
optimized for your hardware). They will be releasing 1.0 before the end
of March, already at RC2 I believe. I've heard the 1.0 release will
include pre-compiled i586 binaries for those who want to use them.
Once installed you'll never have to do a "upgrade" in the redhat,
mandrake, SuSE, etc.. since. All you'll need to do is
emerge --clean rsync ; emerge --world update
Doing this will keep you completely up to date.
Gentoo uses something they call portage, its like a cross between the
ports system from the bsd world, and the dependencies of rpms, debs with
an apt-get like power. Much more info on the website, I really prefer
it over any package system I've tried. The init system is really cool
as well, its basically a SYS V init system but has dependencies (for
example postfix depends on networking to be started, etc...) Just an
excellent distro with advanced features.
-Jason
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 16:30, FeLoNiouS MoNK wrote:
> whats up all .. im lookin to change the distro of linux im using. Currently my workstation/server is runnin RedHate 7.2. Although i like the ease of certain aspects of it, i was not to happy with the problems i encountered when i upgraded to 7.2 and all the kernels i built after that .. .. i had been throwing around the idea of going over to fBSD for a while .. considering i have a slight background in BSD oh so many years ago before my computers got takin by "THE MAN" while i was in high skool. But, considering i just got a divorce and the current operations my job have going on over seas right now i dont have the time and the want to deal with the heartache and dispair i will get tryin to bring a fBSD workstation/server online. So in saying that .. im lookin for LiNUX distro, that i can have up and running in about 2 weeks, perferably with an rpm type capability... but i can do without if need be.. any suggestions?
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