Third Choice of Linux Distro?
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Tue Mar 30 05:49:54 CST 2004
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> For you, Leo, my recommendation would be to build a Linux From Scratch
> installation. That way there are no conspiracies, there is no-one to blame
> but yourself for anything that's not the way you want it to be. You get
> exactly what you decide to get.
And when he asks what car he should buy, you reply, why not build your
own? It'll only take you 3 weeks longer. I'd only do it on a dare,
when I had no pressing engagements. I wouldn't wish a full Gentoo build
on someone unless they actively sought it out on their own like I did.
Reserve a week of evenings and it's doable. Oh, yeah. Don't emerge
world too soon, some minor update to X will throw you into a multi hour
or multi day upgrade. I grant you that there is a lot to be learned
from a LFS or Gentoo build, but I won't do it again soon. I'll save my
energy for a Knoppix remaster.
It's Debian in some form for me. Knoppix, Morphix, Mepis, DamnSmall,
Flonix. SystemRescueCD is good too, based on Gentoo. And I like IPCop
on the firewall, based on RedHat 7.3.
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