Distro comparison

[smallm at panix.com (Mike Small)]

Did you look at debian?  I used gentoo for a little while and went 
back to debian.  What they call stable is pretty old, but there are
ways of mixing mature and immature packages so you can get a good recent
version of something like gnome without using beta quality software
across the board.  There are also ways to get the source for
packages and compile them yourself if you choose.  The package 
maintainers do more for you with the config files than the
gentoo people do.  And of course they aren't going to disappear 
anytime soon.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:29:49PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
...
> Mandrake is as close to being Red Hat as you can get without actually being 
> Red Hat.  However, it seems that (1) They are financially unstable, and 
> have either filed chapter 11 or will do so soon, and (2) they followed Red 
...
> Note: I really liked the talk about Gentoo at the last meeting.  There are 
> two reasons I don't think it's for me though.
> - My server is my mail server, so I cannot have it down for half a day while 
> it compiles and downloads things from the internet.
> - While I much prefer text config files to binary ones, there are certain
>   config files which are very hard to do by hand, like X11 configuration.  I
>   don't know that I would want to go with a distro that had no tools to help
>   with config files like that one.

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Mike Small
smallm at panix.com