Re: Redhat Changes (Gentoo?)


Subject: Re: Redhat Changes (Gentoo?)
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 13:51:51 AKST


* jonr@destar.net <jonr@destar.net> [031103 10:33]:
> If you want to be a stud and get all the chicks use slack. If you want

   Regardless, my wife says it is still O.K. for me to use slack :-)

   Seriously:
   If I could spare the time it takes, I would certainly consider
   Gentoo. My problem being, the time it would take to install and
   configure a new OS is the time I would *not* be using my
   workstation to to gain income.

   I'm wondering outloud here and soliciting comments. How difficult
   would it be to quickly 'swap-out' drives so that I could work
   off of my current Red Hat, swap to a different HD boot and then
   spend my 'off-time' installing? (I have a 512-k DSL connection)

   Any ideas?
   And how long before Gentoo becomes the 'studly' linux?

> to be Gregs friend use debian. All kidding aside, I have been thinking of
> this also, Slack I dont think has the momentum it used to have. Suse I
> would like if they would let me download the latest distro, Debian has its
> appeal but im not sure if I want to always use unstable to have the latest
> greatest. Mandrake I can say nothing about because I dont follow it or use
> it, so my opinion means nothing. RedHat has shifted their distro to
> something called fedora, I'm not sure about this but soemone could verify
> it. I do know that Warren Togami from the LUAU lug in Hawaii is the
> maintainer of this new distro.
>
> So I dont know really, im in the same boat as you, I am also wondering
> what I am going to do. I am begining to see RH as the evil empire of Linux
> with their removing mp3 support and their subscription based updates. I am
> leaning towards Slack and Debian myself, more so towards Debian and this
> is simply because I have never used it and want to learn it. Of course,
> using freebsd as my desktop and my server OS has crossed my mind but I
> want to have my feet in both worlds, so I will probably stay with a linux
> distro as my desktop and keep using freebsd as server fodder.
>
> Any other thoughts on this?
>
> Good question Jamie,
>
> Jon
>
>
>
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