On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 08:21, justin bengtson wrote: > linux is just pissing me off. i like apt, but debian is always a few months > behind on _everything_, red hat is easy to set up and use, but RPM's suck ass > and source compiling doesn't exactly agree with my installs (no matter what i > do...) building a distro from source just takes up too much of my time. the > 3d acceleration is buggy as all hell (last time i used linux, i had to modify > the kernel source to play return to castle wolfenstein... gtkradiant doesn't > work worth shit...) media player software is still way behind under linux > (mplayer, gtv and that other "x" program are too quirky to be useful) after > install half of the shit i installed doesn't work...
I highly recommend Gentoo. Yes, it's a source compile, but the portage system rocks. The stock kernel that comes with it has low-latency and preempt built-in, and so far, everything has worked out of the box (including GnuCash and 3d acceleration, believe it or not). The package management takes the best parts of apt and the FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports system and makes dealing with dependencies trivial-- it does it for you. Go to www.gentoo.org and take a look around. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. After having built a couple of the systems from source, with everything optimized at compile time for my hardware, I'm never going back. Cheers, Dennis
