> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Bigler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 12:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:480] Re: naive distro questions > > > Justin, > > While the pains of your recent distro experience are fresh, you may > want to post what it is you want from a distro and how the various > distros you've tried have failed your expectations.
reasonable. alright, here goes. 1. i want a distro with FHS compliancy. FULL FHS F**KING COMPLIANCY. if something is out of place, it doesn't qualify. this is contrary to my last e-mail, so please don't flame me. i figured if everyone else could throw standards to the wind, i could too. 2. i want a distro which, it it does use a package manager, works. that means that if a package has precompiled binarties, they should work with whatever kernel version i have. and NO rpm's! personal preference. i do not like the RPM system. deb isn't much better. example : i installed xine. i tried to run xine. it does not play anything, even with all dependencies met. 3. for x, the distro should use gnome, not KDE. i have had a bad experience with KDE (basically, it doesn't work. at all.) 4. the distro should be linux. why? because i have not seen another "alternative" OS that actually supports the nvidia chipset (or vice-versa). 5. when i try to compile a program, and have met it's dependencies, it should compile. see #1 above. this is my biggest greif with linux these days. it probably has nothing to do with FHS or the distro in question. it most likely does have to do with the development system. either way, it really pisses me off. 6. above all, the distro's installer should actually work. it shouldn't forget important things like apt-utils (for debian) that's what i want out of a distro.
