On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:12, you wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 19:13, Andrew Errington wrote: > > Gentoo appeals, since it has all the latest stuff and seems to be set > > up so all the apps play nice with each other. �Hmm... > > There are several of us on the list who use Gentoo. I would not recommend > it unless you have a reasonably modern machine, and are not frightened of > using the command line. > > It's not perfect, particularly the unstable release, but no software is, > but it goes well enough to keep me pretty happy most of the time. That's > considerably happier than I was when I was getting stuck in the hell of > binary packages.
Well, at least the latest software is easy to get and build. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy with Debian, but it seems it is better suited for server-side stuff and core OS requirements. KDE is now a bit old and the KDE apps are all to early to be very useful or stable (although KWord is great, KMail is my mailer of choice, and Konqueror my preferred browser). The laptop I would put it on is a bit old- Pentium 2, ~300MHz, 128Mb RAM, but in fact KDE with Debian runs at a usable speed. I have heard that the 2.6 kernel is faster in general, which I would hope would compensate for the overhead of the later KDE. I'm certainly not afraid of the command line =;^) and I don't mind leaving the machine on all week to compile stuff, unless I choose the pre-digested install version. Andy
