I think I've found all these. Oh, and I run RedHat. So you hate RPMs? I do a majority of my stuff from tar.gz. Even XINE. And it works every time!! KDE doesn't work? That's disappointing because it's what I've used all year. The whole NVIDIA thing.... It's my understanding that they can NOT open source the drivers because they don't actually make a video card. They make the CHIP. Big difference. ATI makes chips and cards therefore if they put out an official linux driver it could be open sourced. It comes down to intellectual property. Um, what else? I dropped the SuSE 7.3 in favor of RedHat 7.2. I'd rather go find everything I need and know I can make it work than deal with all them "package managers". I can do so more freely in RedHat and I also know that if I compile a kernel straight from the tree it'll most likely work on the first boot.
Evil am I Later, Mr O > > 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
