On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Christopher Sawtell <csawt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 May 2010 16:41, Nick Rout <nick.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell <csawt...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris <che...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: >> >> > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: >> >> > > > I just want a very generic distro. >> >> > > >> >> > > Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned >> >> > > 'generic', >> >> > > as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc. >> >> > > >> >> > A distro aiming at as few surprises as possible. >> >> > Most of what I have mentioned are relatively generic but all >> >> > have some surprises. Fedora has become particularly annoying >> >> > to upgrade and Ubuntu tries to prevent serious tinkering etc, etc. >> >> Amen >> >> cheers Chris T >> >> >> > >> > In that case I reckon you need one of the DIY distros. e.g. >> > >> > Linux from Scratch. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ >> > Source Mage. http://sourcemage.org/ >> > >> > Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ is also a possibility, but you mention >> > that as >> > being undesirable. >> > >> > I'm sure some of us would be prepared to set up our machines as hosts in >> > a >> > compiler farm for you. >> > >> > Volunteers CLUGgers? >> >> Been there done that! Anyway you already mentioned Sabayon which is >> gentoo anyway. > > Not entirely. There is another very necessary layer of QA and it shows. It's > sensibly pre-compiled with appropriately sensible use flags. They have > obviously expended a considerable amount of energy setting up the packages > to both look nice and run properly. KDE-4.4.3 is a dream. Last but not least > it has a completely new and different package management system which > actually seems to work really well. > >> I suggest Arch Linux, has a rolling release and good packaging system, >> good docos, good community. Many people swear by it. You'll get your >> hands dirty but not as much as for LFS or gentoo. > > Do you use Arch yourself? > And if so, for how long?
Only in the context of LinHES, but I have been following the forums and so forth and thinking about giving it a go on my laptop.
