Hi Tobias Welcome to Etoile.
I hope you find something that interests you on the project. We're still at that stage where things are very much open to new ideas and there is plenty of new things to work on. I used to use Debian, but I've just switched to Ubuntu too. I used to use FreeBSD, and have flirted with switching back now that I mostly interact with Linux through a VM. It is not hard to pick up coming from Linux (certainly easier than switching to Solaris) but some things will still surprise you such as bash not being the default shell (you'll have to install it from ports). Its certainly a lot more stable and unchanging, and much better documented at the system utilities level. Cheers Chris On 10/02/2011, at 21:25 PM, David Chisnall wrote: > 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 -------- Christopher Armstrong carmstr...@fastmail.com.au _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list Etoile-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
