You could take up FreeBSD. It's not Linux, it's a real descendant of BSD Unix.
Depending on how you treat it, it can be like Gentoo or Debian, in that you can build everything from source or use binary packages. If you take a look at the latest release notes, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/announce.html you can see that there are a number of advanced systems technologies that are in Freebsd that just aren't available in linux, In particular ZFS and the DTRACE subsystem. So if you want some of the cool things that Sun was working on before they got borged by Oracle this is the place to go. If you are worried about the availability of a GUI don't be. Both GNOME and KDE are available for FreeBSD. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, JKaplan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure is quiet around here.... > > I'm not feeling it with ubuntu anymore. Has anyone dealt with gentoo, > linuxmint or pld? > > I'm running AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.6 > 2GB Ram and a decent video card. Sound, Ethernet, etc on an ASUS > m2n mx-se plus motherboard. > > Main focus are OpenOffice for school documents, processing photos with > F-stop & Gimp, > playing with seamonkeys, and Stellarium. I used to dig kde and the myriad > wm's Mandrake > got to work on cheap hardware. > > We used to have a poll: What Distro Are you? > > I want to see what's being used out there besides Ubuntu 10.10 and (cough) > puppy. > > --Kaplan > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
