Ubuntu and Kubuntu vs. Mepis.... Gentoo?

[Jack]

--- Luke-Jr wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 April 2006 14:48, Jeremy Fowler
> wrote:
> > Why has Gentoo fallen out of favor?
> 
> Mainly because Gentoo's quality has been
> deteriorating over the past few 
> years.
My take on this. I've used Gentoo. It was ok,
but I'm still searching for the right distro.
I'm starting to lean towards Linspire for a
desktop machine.
Servers, I've pretty much gone raw debian.

On the Ubuntu front. Every version I've installed has
had hardware issues, preventing a clean install.
I've totally failed to build a Kubuntu CD that would
install clean (whereas sometimes Ubuntu would install
clean). It's been a long time since I've had a distro
that would flake out on me on some hardware. I've run
Mepis for many years and never had much issues with
it.
It's still a nice distro.

As far as apt-get issues, I have a few apt-pin
problems, but if someoone has apt-pin problems it is
<<< always >>> the fault of the person who is
maintaining the system and has no relation to the
flavor of debian or debian itself. Basically, you
should never apt-pin, and if you do you should be 
prepared to pay the price. The price being eventual
apt-pin problems.

Aside, to the grammar nazi:
 the year 6 AD <> the year six the year of our Lord,
 BUT
 the year 6 AD == the year six Anno Domini.

Which of course "could" be "translated" into: 
 the year 6 AD <> the year six the year of our Lord

<OT warning - do not read if you are offended by OT>

But, it wasn't. I've also, seen and been taught in
grade school the A.D. stood for after death. Which of
course is incorrect. On top of which if you want to
get really picky about grammar, you shouldn't use AD
anymore, but CE or (Current Era), which would produce
a grammatically correct sentence. On top of which,
since the term AD was used and not a spelled out the
grammar was almost correct. The correct form should be
"the year AD 6" or "the year BC 6". Even though those
of us who think in Latin-English see it as redundant
speech.
Why? I don't know, he's on third base. Well, actually
I do know.

</OT>

brian jd