Re: [dev] Suckless (*NIX|*BSD) Distribution?

[Paul Malherbe]

I totally agree with your comments. I have been using gentoo in corporate environments for the past 5 years mainly as servers but also as desktop systems and yet have to find another distro to compare with its flexibility and package management. Regards Paul Malherbe +27 (0) 21 6711866 +27 (0) 82 9005260 Antoni Grzymala wrote: Kris Maglione dixit (2009-06-20, 00:33): On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:21:54AM -0400, Antony Jepson wrote: I've been eyeing Crux lately but maybe Gentoo would be a better choice? If it makes a difference, I currently use Arch. “Gentoo is for ricers.” Stay away from it unless you're the kind of hopeless idealist who doesn't mind waiting hours for simple software installs and days before you have a usable system. If you want simple-stupid, especially if you're BSD-minded, I'd stick with Arch. This is a common misconception that dates from years ago. Now the loud wannabe Gentoo ricer kids have all died out of boredom or got day jobs and Gentoo is happily used in production as a high quality distro with great management tools. And easily tunable for light dependencies on packages if that's what you need. You can get a usable system in an afternoon (autobuild stage3) where the installation is basically untarring the base system onto a fs and a little configuration of the likes of fstab and such is to be done. Then you build some X-tools, compile dwm and off you go. I tried migrating my personal laptops to arch, debian and the like and always keep getting back to Gentoo. Debian is great, but so much less flexible than Gentoo, and Arch is fine when you get to use the basic (small) set of packages but venturing beyond that into the AUR is a *quality disaster*. You may not like Gentoo for other valid reasons, but what you write is sweet crap. Best, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.