[Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?
- From: sudharsh@xxxxxxxxx (Sudharshan S)
- Date: Sat Jul 5 19:25:14 2008
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 05-Jul-08, at 4:28 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
WHY I RECOMMEND DEBIAN:
<snip>
WHY I RECOMMEND MANDRIVA
1. Controlled by a company
2. Superior design (Ex: Harddrake)
3. Stability (Ex: used by my grandmother
4. URMPI
5. UCI User Controlled installation
WHY I RECOMMEND GENTOO
1. Not controlled by a company
2. Superior design (Ex: portage, revdep-rebuild, USE flags, Parallel fetch
(downloads sources in the background when sources are compiling, so
upgrading a gentoo and ubuntu/debian box takes the same time)
3. Stability
4. Teaches Patience!
5. Rolling upgrades, no versioning.
6. More *unique* packages than any other distro, (-dev -dbg packages doesnt
count)
And oh yeah, all that messages scrolling during emerge feels geeky..:D
Regards
Sudharshan "Binary distros are boring" S
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