Thanks for the response. I'm not worried about compile time. It will be on a dual 1.9 AMD box. I'll look them up, too.
Collins wrote: > On Thu, 09 May 2002 18:38:40 -0700 "Net Llama!" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue. They just like to >> make standards, rather than follow them. >> > > I would call it "doing it their own damn way." What they do > (sometimes reluctantly) becomes standard just because everyone else > gives up. > > >> I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick. Way too many religious >> zealots. >> > > Total agreement, but lots of people like it. It's really the > "old-time religion," emphasis on o-l-d. They do, of course, have a > development branch. I could never get one of their base installs to > run on my machines. > >> Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a >> wee bit too unstable for my taste. I mean, devfs as the standard??? >> What >> were they thinking? > > I guess I resemble that remark. gentoo has been serving up devfs > almost since day one, and I can't remember any failures due to devfs. > As I said in another post, once you get the arcane syntax down (gentoo > does it for you), you forget that it exists. > >> >> SuSE has been gathering steam as a very dependable distro, although >> i've never used it. > > I never did like the SuSE all-in-one configuration file that hides all > details of how linux systems really operate. > >> >> So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on. >> RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days. I >> think they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their >> market share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the >> needs to the l33t script kiddies. > > Caldera and RedHat, though miles apart otherwise, share one attribute > in common. They like to do it their own way, to hell with any > standards. I've always thought of them as the Microsofts of the linux > world: we're big enough to do it just because we can, and you have to > lump it. > > As someone else said, ELX is putting together a nice distro for less > talented users, but, unfortunately performance sucks. > > Which brings me back to gentoo. Once you bite the bullet of a few > days compile time, you won't ever need another distro. gentoo tries > to adhere pretty much to the evolving Linux Standard Base. The init > scripts, on the other hand, and the installation packager deviate > completely from any sort of standard. The gentoo developers are quite > responsive to problem reports and helping out as long as you do your > homework and post exact details. > > There is no perfect distro. You pays you money (hopefully little), > and you takes you chances. > > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
