Thanks to all those who commented. Now I'm even more confused than before ;-).
Useability (in terms of the underlying package manegement, not the GUI) and throughness or availabliity of non-often used packages are my two main requirements. This is because, lets face it, freevo is not often supported by any distro. Most small user base application like freevo or even vdr are often left out of the loop as all these mainstream distro's are about is providing a nice 'desktop' slash windows replacement. That being said, I'd probably like to run x via a vnc session now and again, this is probably the key driver for me to migrate of gentoo. To get x to run on gentoo via vnc I need to rebuild from scratch. And it takes about a week to do so and I just don't have the time. Tha fact that i'm using matrox hardware kinda means I *have* to compile the kernal anyway. This in itself is not a joyous thing for me, especially on a new system as It wlaways takes me about 5 compile and recover attempts to remember all the 'special' changes I had to make to get not just my matrox running, but the usb hacks to get my dvico card's usb remot working, and the special hacks required to get my usb dvd burner working, and the special hacks to get my dvico dvb card working also. All of which so far (in the last 2 years at least) still haven't made it into a mainstream build. By special hacks, I mean patchs. They all work, mys system doesn't crash, but I just loath having to them ;-). Sorry for all those purists who think this is what using linux is all about. For me it's the ability to give back a little. Anyhoo, from you comments I take it the current freevo user base thinks ubuntoo is bloated. Ok this is good to know. No one voted for it, debian sarge got one vote and slackware got 2. I won't be using debian as I've heard most of my hardware is even harder to get going than with a gnereal linux distro. So off to download slackware. I'm in no hurry now though, as with the above comments i've pretty much convinced myself I don't have enough time to go trhough an look for current patchs and all that for all my shitty hardware :(. Mike One more question though Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
