Hi! I recently had the luck to be able to obtain a new system. I am doing various trials (speak OSes) on it to make the switch from K-Ubuntu to something that will be more fun to work with.
I've tried Scientific Linux 6 which I find nice, clean, but I dislike the old KDE (4.3). I can't live without KDE's Kontact goodies. Also, myself being a specialist in messing up normal running systems, I managed to quickly mix up some of the repositories that don't go well along ;-p. I didn't read the "signs" I guess... I am running currently on openSUSE 12.3 which offers a fantastic installation experience and appears to me to be very stable, even with latest KDE 4.10. Indeed, the experience was brought with the least of tweaking actions I needed to do so far, among various Linux distros I have tried (K-Ubuntu, Slax, Fedora once, Gentoo once, Debian some years ago). I think, anyhow, that zypper (the cli package manager) isn't that good as apt-get (yes, apt-get has some functionalities which make life easy when hunting dependencies for example -- me thinks at least). The third on the row is Funtoo. I managed to install quickly the base following the official tutorial, had to fight a bit to install Xorg (since I didn't understand quite some stuff), wait hours for KDE to "emerge". Yet, it feels it's worth the time spent! It seems that portage is quite an advanced tool and offers everything and even more (?) apt-get has to offer. It'll take some time I guess till I gain a good understanding of the advantages and how to use'm properly. But it feels like once set-up, you never look back. Herewith, I kindly ask you to share your experiences on-list. In particular, are there Gentoo/Funtoo users out there who regularly build grass_trunk and the rest? GRASS-Wiki looks "empty" in this direction. Also, relates in a way, there is this <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GIS_workstation_setup_tips> page which deserves an update since Technology advances rapidly into new areas. Best, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
