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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Steven Caron <carons(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks for you inpurt! exactly the stuff i wanted to know.
>
> steven
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > Well may as well answer the distro question here since it's posted. :)
> >
> >
> > > anyways i had a question about linux distros, i wanted your opinion
> because
> > > i think this question would probably fall mostly under
> preference/opinion of
> > > a distribution of linux...
> > >
> > > for you why gentoo?
> >
> > I chose gentoo for a couple of reasons. One was because being source-based
> > it's really easy for me to mix and match versions of packages to meet any
> > requirements that may be required in order to get closed source packages
> > working properly. When you deal with a binary distro you will sometimes
> hit
> > the situation where you need a particular version of a package to compiled
> > to link against other versions of what you've got. So you could end up in
> the
> > position where you need to compile things anyway to get it working.
> >
> > The other reason when I first started out was it's a very hands on
> > distro (or was
> > then). It had no installer so you actually installed it yourself. This
> > was a good
> > way for me to get familiar with linux in general and understand how the
> pieces
> > go together. I actually did a cold turkey switch from windows to force
> myself to
> > get it working. I complete blasted away my windows partition to avoid
> temptation
> > to do "just this one thing" in windows "until I figured it out in
> > linux". Believe me
> > the first week was not fun.
> >
> > General sysadmin on gentoo is really easy to - the method for adding
> things to
> > startup is nice and simple, the package manager is good.
> >
> > Though having listed those benefits I've actually just switched my home
> distro
> > from gentoo. I've been gone to Sabayon http://www.sabayonlinux.org
> >
> > It's based on gentoo, but 3.5 has a gentoo compatible binary package
> > manager. So it's giving all the benefits of gentoo when you need them, but
> > the speed of using binary packages generally. So they really seem to have
> hit
> > a best of both worlds. It's installer is also incredibly simple - so even
> people
> > new to linux would have a fairly easy time installing and running it. Plus
> > pretty much everything works out of the box with it - graphics cards,
> wireless,
> > etc etc.
> >
> >
> > > your opinion of fedora? 8? 9?
> >
> > Well I've never been a big fan of Red Hat, and Fedora is very similar.
> Though
> > I've also not done much with it since they got yum (package manager). I
> put
> > CentOS 5 on a box here and it was easy enough. Though I just put it
> together
> > to run Zimbra (which is awesome). Raff and Moritz have much more Fedora
> > experience than me so hopefully they can point out the pros and cons.
> >
> > > your opinion of unbuntu?
> >
> > I think Ubuntu's done a lot of good things for linux, but I find it to
> > be in an odd
> > place. While it's simplified a lot it hasn't quite got there for
> > general users. If
> > someone is considering Ubuntu for general computing I'd recommend they
> > check out PCLinuxOS. It seems to have got the user friendly side a bit
> more
> > refined. Vector or Mint would also be good alternatives to consider.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan.
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