Oh goody. A new distribution. What's it like? Where do you get it? Woody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Jason > > >I am seriously considering moving from Crap(X)P to Salck 9.1 on the Dell > >Woody > >Jason wrote: > >>Thanks Bob. >> >> >> >> >>>VMware needs RAM more than it needs CPU power, I >>>thought. >>> >>> >>You're definitely right, I guess I should have said >>resource intensive. >> >> >> >>>OTOH, if you want to abandon all semblance of a >>>normal life and devote >>>each of your remaining hours on this mortal plane to >>>Linux >>>maintenance, customization, and tweaking, go with >>>Gentoo. (-: That's >>>what I've done, and I don't regret it a bit. >>> >>> >>Is gentoo that bad? I don't mind putting in a bit of >>work, but since it is a work laptop, I mostly want to >>get going with a fairly small amount of downtime. >> >> >> >>>But Gentoo does keep >>>you on the cutting >>>edge. I didn't have to go outside of Gentoo to get >>>APM, DVD ripping, >>>DVD playback (and lots of other video formats), 3D >>>acceleration, >>>and lots of other cool stuff (like a bunch of games >>>I never play (-: ). >>> >>> >>Mostly will just need CD writing, wifi, USB, nothing >>too complicated. >> >> >> >> >>>I'm assuming you know your way around Linux enough >>>that you're not >>>intimidated by things like fdisk, editing >>>/etc/fstab, or building a >>>kernel. If that weren't the case, we'd be >>>discussing Mandrake and >>>Fedora. >>> >>> >>Yeah, I usually rebuild the kernel as a first step. >>That way if I foobar anything, it's an easy rebuild >>w/o too much hoohah. Of course, my current laptop is a >>2.2 kernel, so I am excited to get to 2.4, to say >>nothing about 2.6. Old school baby. >> >>I was leaning toward debian and will probably give >>that a shot, tho I am interested in Gentoo. I may save >>this until I eventually by a new desktop for personal >>use. >> >>Jason >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard >>http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree >>_______________________________________________ >>EuG-LUG mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >
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