[Linux-Anyway] Re: refugee
- From: Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:38:20 -0400
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:20:00AM +0200, Horror Vacui wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:56:13 -0400
> HaywireMac wrote:
>
> >
> > What distro do you run? I'm highly tempted by others, esp Debian and
> > Gentoo, but being that I lack self-confidence in my technical
> > abilities still, and my system seems to do everything I want it to do,
> > I've been holding back.
> >
>
> Gentoo is currently my favourite, closely followed by Debian. Come to
> think of it, what counts most in a distro is the package manager -
> opinions?
Agreed. I prefer Arch Linux these days
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/arch.html for a Linux distro.
I like Gentoo, but find very little advantage in building from source.
Arch impressed me during the time of the gcc upgrade--with Gentoo most
of us just wiped and reinstalled, while with Arch the upgrade was
seamless. Its pacman package manager is even more convenient--imho--than
Deb's apt. The only disdavantage is that as it's a relatively new and
obscure distro, there are a limited number of packages.
I prefer it over Gentoo because it's far quicker to install--I have it
up and running within an hour, including X. (Although Gentoo now has
their release platforms as well, which are binary and will install
quickly.).
However, I do almost everything from FreeBSD these days, though I keep a
Linux distro or two around to keep my hand in and because certain
desktop type things, such as playing music, work better (as a rule) in
Linux.
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