On Thursday 21 September 2006 08:10, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:43 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Keep on with the building of the package. > > This is the main reason that I will never ever again have anything to do > > with a 'binary' distribution. In my exp. they are all glamour and no > > guts, garnished with packages suffering from bit-rot, and dependency > > hell. ( I'd agree that that particular hell is a lot cooler than it used > > to be, but my exp. is that all the distributions suffer from it. ) > > Chris I think that "your experience" might be a bit dated now. That's quite possibly true, I've been on Gentoo for about 4 years now, since Gentoo-1.2 anyway. Unfortunately time being what it is, I have not kept up with the details of other distributions. > You should try one of the recent Distro releases and refresh your opinion. > (IMHO) I have installed PC-BSD on a dual P/III machine. It appeared to install totally painlessly creating a nice KDE desk. _However_, The install did not detect that the machine had two CPUs and install the correct kernel. That one is now sorted thanks to Nick.
The version of CUPS installed is rather old and does not support a locally connected parallel port printer. Fiddling about with 'pkg_add -r cups' doesn't produce the latest version. I'd like to install a more recent version of gcc - so it's the same as the one on my ThinkPad running Gentoo - but I havn't the slightest idea how to go about doing it. I suppose I'll have to install them from source. :-) Now perhaps you can appreciate why I'm such a fan of source distros. > I recently installed Mepis on my main desktop and everything I need was > installed (including all dependancies) without a hassle and in only a > couple of hours. imho, it's a Big Black Cloud(tm) that Mepis does not detect and install the software for the Lucent/Agere lose-modem so that it works completely automatically. Note that we have two reports of this, so it's not just Alan. -- CS
