[Linux-Anyway] Re: refugee
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:11:50 -0700 (PDT)
> Never change a running system.
Unless.... In my case, I'd recently bought an 80GB drive
(which M$ XP broke, couldn't fix, but Linux not only detected it
-- which M$, after breaking it, couldn't -- but also fixed it &
others which are working fine now). So, I'm planning on swapping
hda, which has my running RH 7.2, with the 80GB drive &
installing gentoo. If gentoo won't work, I'll just swap back &
have RH 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?
I'm hoping, unlike RH, that all my peripherals -- which are
listed in gentoo's HCL -- will actually work. I especially hope
my burner will do more than come up as a cdrom.
> > I figure until I can learn how to work basic stuff like
> > Apache and Postfix, I'll stay where I'm comfy.
> Those aren't basic stuff.
No, they're not. But each works quite nicely "out of the box"
& only require a little tinkering to get other bits of them to do
what you want. Plus, postfix ~really~ will block open relays,
unlike sendmail, which, after doing everything one has to do to
make it secure, one has to do it over & over, & then do it again
& again -- then do more.
Meph
--
He: Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science.
She: What?!? Science got enough trouble with their ~own~
brains.
-Walt Kelly
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