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I find that using source in building all your linux tools will get you into lots of trouble with dependencies and redundant packages. I prefer debian because of its lightness out of the box and because of apt, which is awesome. I thought Gentoo wasn't worth the trouble. On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:55, rek2 wrote: > I also find Debian and Gentoo as my favorites distribution as I may be a > old school but I like Source code and to have a system like I want not > like they have package it and if I do need to use packages Debian is the > best for that. and if for some reason tht package bothers me I download > the source code and use thge ./configure option with flags to add the > binarys to the right place. About obscure options I have no problem with > that, it happends that I like to study and read a lot of books, was a > AIX and Solaris user before I started to use GNU/Linux in 1994, in > those days took me a while to get GNU/Linux 100% dominated, so if you > did in those days, today you will not have any problem, sinse today some > distributions of GNU/Linux make it almost for dummys.LOL > > > reK2. > > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 13:01, Bob Keyes wrote: > > personally, I find Debian to be the best. Not to say I don't have issues > > with it, but I like the fact that the package system actually works, that > > it is really easy to follow either a stable branch or an advanced branch > > of updates, that it works very well in text mode (handy for servers), > > and supports ham radio well. What I don't like is the rough edges -- too > > many dialog boxes that ask for obscure settings. I am a pretty technical > > user but am still put off by all this, I imagine it would be quite > > disheartening to the novice user. Though most of the time you just choose > > the default and things are fine. I also don't like the fact that a lot of > > cruft is added on as a default -- I don't like emacs for instance, why do > > I get it by default? However this is a common problem with operating > > systems these days so it doesn't rank that high on hits against debian. > > The last thing that annoys me is this insistance on GNU/Linux. I want to > > call it linux, and will. I don't want to get into a political discussion > > so I'll drop it here. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss at blu.org > > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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