On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:09:41 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I confess I too have been somewhat disturbed that Gentoo is suffering from > severe growing pains. Early on in the piece I realized that running 'Stable' > was going to be less satisfactory than 'Unstable' so I have had the ~x86 > thingie enabled for a long time. Note that I do not run anything which > is 'hard-masked'. > > Recently I d/l the PCBSD cd and have installed it on a Dual P/III machine > which has lots of memory. So far, a few hours, I am quite impressed. > The base install uses KDE-3.5.x. It looks nice and so far there haven't been > any problems, but I don't think it's using both CPUs fully. > > I hope discussing *BSD is not considered too off topic on linux-users, that > I'll get harassed out of the community. > > Yes, I've has a brief play with KUbuntu, but was not sufficiently enamoured > by > it to make the change on my regular machine. > > -- > CS I've always been of the view that all software packagers stuff up on occasion - yes, even SuSE (: It just seems to be Gentoo's turn. Ubuntu let rip with a patch that crashed X on a number of machines last week, I have terrible problems with FC4 dependency hell on a regular basis, and I was so disgusted with trying to run a server on 64 bit debian with a gui, that I gave up and went to Ubuntu. And that's just the last few months ( well, except for SuSE... I stopped using it in 2000 when it was *really* bad! ). I really don't think that the odd cock-up is a reason for changing distributions, let alone flavours of *nix, although I expect the increasing popularity of the linux desktop will bring plenty of viruses/malware along with it in the near future... maybe *BSD will be sufficiently different to protect from that for a bit longer. I'm still not too sure what the real difference is between any of the major distributions anyway... could anyone explain? It'll make a change from modems anyway (: As ever, my $0.02, Steve
