matttah 0 Posted December 3, 2004 I know this has been one that ya get alot, but as I sit here futzing with the install process of gentoo...I'm thinking what does everyone else use. So please post your distro, and the pros/cons. Thanks. Daum Share this post Link to post
egorgry 0 Posted December 4, 2004 Debian sid. Pros: It's Debian! all bleeding edge software from teh unstable branch.apt-get on debian is the best pkg managment system. Kernel compiles are a snap. Cons: Fussy setup/install but once it's done right you never need to reinstall. Ubuntu and Mepis however have all teh pros of debian with out the hassle of a Traditional Debian install. I love Ubuntu and stronglu recommend it. I've never tried Mepis but I've heard and read great things about the Distro. Let it be know that I hate RPM distros so this is a biased recomendation. http://www.debian.org/ http://ubuntu-linux.com/ http://www.mepis.com/ Share this post Link to post
Dapper Dan 0 Posted December 4, 2004 I like a distro that is easy. OK I've said it! Presently on my 120 gig hard drive I have Gentoo, Suse 9.1 Professional and Mandrake 9.1. With any Linux distro, you can get up to your neck in tinkering, compiling and customizing all you want. That goes for Mandrake all the way through Gentoo and Slackware. Although I can clearly see and appreciate Gentoo's philosophy, and the efficiency with which it compiles and operates, it simply makes my head hurt! Trying to understand all the directions given on the Gentoo site for doing the various things I must do to get an operating system to my liking is just more work than I want to undertake. I see Gentoo as my "hot rod" in the garage I can tinker around with, but for my day to day mode of travel, I take comfort in SuSE 9.1 Professional. I like the Debian distros, Morphix, Mepis, Knoppix, Kanotix, Ubuntu, and Damn Small, and at some point, have installed all of them to Hard Drive. I like Debian, but I'm just more comfortable with the utilities offered by Mandrake, Fedora and Suse. urpmi, Yast and apt-get RPM make installing packages with these three distros ridiculously simple. I personally have experienced no drawbacks whatsoever from using RPM based distros. I think SuSE is the best distro for new users, and guys like me who not only like to tinker, but want a distro they can always count on to be simple to install and easy to run, customize and manage. Share this post Link to post
matttah 0 Posted December 4, 2004 Whats your guys opinion on LFS(linux from scratch). Been wanting to learn linux realyl well for sometime..and i think this could be my chance....sadly..i just spent like 4 hours making gentoo work..bummer=\ Daum Share this post Link to post
taeuler 0 Posted December 4, 2004 The one thing I've heard about lfs is that it really isn't good to use for your everyday system, since maintaining it is a real chore, but I have heard it's an interesting learning tool. I plan to try it at some point, I have all the source, but I just havn't gotten around to it yet. The general felling that I have gotten from others (mostly Gentoo users who've tried it) is that LFS is pretty much like gentoo without portage. It definitly looks fun to play around with though. Share this post Link to post
matttah 0 Posted December 4, 2004 Whats up with this double posting....this one is noticably later... i went to bed after posting that first one lol Sry about em, will one of hte mods delete the other thread? Daum Share this post Link to post
