[juneau-lug] Re: Different Distro

  • From: fritz funk <fritzf@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:31:29 -0900

Chuck,

I do a fair number of Mandrake installs, often with new users, but have 
to confess that I haven't really experimented much with other distros. 
I've been quite content with Mandrake....can burn you some 10.1 CDs if 
you would like.

--Fritz


Chuck Hakari wrote:

>This list has been pretty quiet lately, so I will try and liven things 
>up a bit.
>
>I currently use Fedora Core 2. I mostly like it and it is fairly easy to 
>keep up-to-date using apt/synaptic, but the frequency of version changes 
>and the problems with upgrades, especially on systems like mine with 
>many non-standard packages, makes me think that I should try some other 
>distro that isn't such a pain to upgrade. I would consider a distro that 
>uses, or at least has available, all the standard KDE packages. The 
>distro needs to include the devel packages, since I will need to compile 
>certain programs that are only available in src tarballs.
>
>I started to do the Gentoo install on my test system. The documentation 
>is great, but it still is quite a chore to install (at least doing a 
>stage 1 install.) I may have to try it again sometime, but do a stage 2 
>or 3 install just to see what it is like.
>
>Yoper installs easily and runs fast, but seems to be a bit limited. 
>Might be wrong on this, so I should give it another go sometime.
>
>Should I try Mandrake, Mepis, Debian? Let me know. I'll keep a tally of 
>your votes. At the very least, I will know what distro everyone on this 
>list uses!
>
>Chuck Hakari
>
>P.S. Happy New Year!
>
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