I try other distro's periodically but I always seem to come back to 'Drake. Sure the QA (or lack thereof) pisses me off sometimes but all in all, they do a darned good job and definitely stay true to both OSS AND the Desktop user, something that is rare in the distro game these days. And I know Chris rails on RPM hell but that has dissapeared for me with URPMI and I simply don't have a box with enough grunt to compile all the bloody time.
My .0002c worth...
Cheers
Jason
Robert Fisher wrote:
I did my first Gentoo installation with help from Nick. My second installation was done almost completely by myself.
The point is: If I can do it, anyone with a couple of years Linux experience should be able to do it. The documentation is very good IMHO and covers everything with good explanations.
Rob
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:11, Don Gould wrote:
I thought I'd have a read of the web site and sort things out for my self...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
The link above only lead me to a list of topic headings.
Maybe I should be looking at Mandrake? That also seems to be popular around here.
Would that be a better choice?
Guys all I'm really looking for is a good GPL linux distro that a bunch of locals are using so I can give and get good assistance.
I'd use RH but it seems to be heading down the commerical lines...
Debian support on the local mirrors doesn't seem that good and frankly it doesn't seem to be upto the level of some of the others for the desktop enviornment.
Excuse me if I'm starting to become frustrated here :)
Cheers Don
