Hokay, so I have just tried gentoo. Got it installed, mostly working.
Now I have to re-install again. I made a very obscure mistake. I compiled it -march=pentium4 -O3 No problem. Except that puts mmx/sse instructions into the libs like libc. But I make heavy use of valgrind, which can't, as yet, grok mmx/sse instructions. And _everything_ uses libc. So I basically have to redo my gentoo install. Hmm. There are some things I like about gentoo, some things I don't. Like whenever I reach for yet another app, its not there and I have to emerge it. Bugger. Conclusion. Gentoo is a good one for learning and in depth fiddling. I have learnt a thing or three about how modern linux distros work. Gentoo is certainly not a good newbie distro, as a very experience linux user I enjoyed the "hands on" feel like I haven't had since the days of early Slackware. Deadbat is hiding too much from me. I don't like Deadbat, its too slick, it hides too much, it buggers up my life too much. It is starting to feel very windowsy. Many murky things go on hidden under layers of glueys. Gentoo also not a good distro for the power user who urgently needs to get things done _now_. I think its back to Debian for me. Will anyone have a set of the 8 "testing" (sarge) Debian CD's at the meeting tommorrow? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Good Ideas: Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang-org - The best of perl,python,scheme without the pain. Valgrind - http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ - memory debugger for x86-GNU/Linux Free your books - http://www.bookcrossing.com
