Bob Crandell wrote:
Oh goody. A new distribution. What's it like? Where do you get it?
Woody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Jason
I am seriously considering moving from Crap(X)P to Salck 9.1 on the Dell
Woody
Jason wrote:
Thanks Bob.
VMware needs RAM more than it needs CPU power, I thought.
You're definitely right, I guess I should have said resource intensive.
OTOH, if you want to abandon all semblance of a normal life and devote each of your remaining hours on this mortal plane to Linux maintenance, customization, and tweaking, go with Gentoo. (-: That's what I've done, and I don't regret it a bit.
Is gentoo that bad? I don't mind putting in a bit of work, but since it is a work laptop, I mostly want to get going with a fairly small amount of downtime.
But Gentoo does keep you on the cutting edge. I didn't have to go outside of Gentoo to get APM, DVD ripping, DVD playback (and lots of other video formats), 3D acceleration, and lots of other cool stuff (like a bunch of games I never play (-: ).
Mostly will just need CD writing, wifi, USB, nothing too complicated.
I'm assuming you know your way around Linux enough that you're not intimidated by things like fdisk, editing /etc/fstab, or building a kernel. If that weren't the case, we'd be discussing Mandrake and Fedora.
Yeah, I usually rebuild the kernel as a first step. That way if I foobar anything, it's an easy rebuild w/o too much hoohah. Of course, my current laptop is a 2.2 kernel, so I am excited to get to 2.4, to say nothing about 2.6. Old school baby.
I was leaning toward debian and will probably give that a shot, tho I am interested in Gentoo. I may save this until I eventually by a new desktop for personal use.
Jason
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