On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 05:23:42 -0800 Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 08:49 pm,Collins Richey wrote: > <snip> > > > > Then I discovered gentoo, > <snip> > > Ah bliss! > > <end of almost a rant> > > Doesn't sound like a rant, sounds like it works. Does this mean > that there are others besides RH, Caldera, Mandrake, SuSE > (like Doug's favorite Redmond Linux) that are beginning to assemble > something that is upgradable in a straight-forward newbie-able > manner? > Don't know about the newbie-able manner portion of that, but it's certainly straight-forward. Anyone who's lurked/contributed on this group for a while could certainly handle it, but a classic newbie straight from Windoze land might prefer a "does everything for you" distro. Redmond Linux is certainly easy, but I can't stand the bastardized KDE. The proof of the pudding will be when another phase-shift occurs with glibc that breaks all existing software (I don't know why they can't make them compatible). The gentoo setup will require relatively little tweaking to install a new system, but an upgrade with glibc in the middle is a near impossible thing. -- Collins Richey Denver Area - 12DEC2001 - WWTLRD? gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre8+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
