On 10 Feb 2011, at 10:20, Tobias Kreisel wrote: > Hey everyone, > >> > I chose Gentoo because I can start with a clean system without Gnome, or >> > any of that heavyweight stuff that comes with Ubuntu. Perhaps this is the >> > wrong approach? >> >> I think it's a good approach - it's one of the reasons why I picked FreeBSD. >> The downside is that I think you are the first person to try Étoilé on >> Gentoo, so you may have to work out some of the platform-specific issues. >> Let me know what problems you encounter, > > Since I have not yet succeded in compiling/installing Etoile on a Ubuntu > machine (amongst other things due to a lack of time): Do you think it's > easier to start out with FreeBSD given that I never used that before (I have > about 5 years of Linux experience, though)?
Ubuntu should work - Quentin uses it, so he's the person to bug with problems there. I switched to FreeBSD after a few years of using Linux because I was frustrated with sound not working properly[1] and with needing to install millions of things that I never used by default. You'll find the documentation on FreeBSD much better than any Linux distribution, but it's always a matter of personal taste, and if you prefer the SysV way of doing things then you'll likely find any BSD quite frustrating. David [1] This was almost ten years ago, and it seems that the situation on the Linux side hasn't improved much. -- Sent from my Apple II _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
