On 29 May 2010 16:41, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > >> > On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: > >> > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > >> > > > I just want a very generic distro. > >> > > > >> > > Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned > 'generic', > >> > > as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc. > >> > > > >> > A distro aiming at as few surprises as possible. > >> > Most of what I have mentioned are relatively generic but all > >> > have some surprises. Fedora has become particularly annoying > >> > to upgrade and Ubuntu tries to prevent serious tinkering etc, etc. > >> Amen > >> cheers Chris T > >> > > > > In that case I reckon you need one of the DIY distros. e.g. > > > > Linux from Scratch. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ > > Source Mage. http://sourcemage.org/ > > > > Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ is also a possibility, but you mention > that as > > being undesirable. > > > > I'm sure some of us would be prepared to set up our machines as hosts in > a > > compiler farm for you. > > > > Volunteers CLUGgers? > > Been there done that! Anyway you already mentioned Sabayon which is > gentoo anyway. >
Not entirely. There is another very necessary layer of QA and it shows. It's sensibly pre-compiled with appropriately sensible use flags. They have obviously expended a considerable amount of energy setting up the packages to both look nice and run properly. KDE-4.4.3 is a dream. Last but not least it has a completely new and different package management system which actually seems to work really well. I suggest Arch Linux, has a rolling release and good packaging system, > good docos, good community. Many people swear by it. You'll get your > hands dirty but not as much as for LFS or gentoo. > Do you use Arch yourself? And if so, for how long? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
