On Tuesday 25 December 2001 02:10 am, you wrote: > On Dec 24 Collins Richey was heard saying: > > ->Navigate to http://www.elxlinux.com/ for more info. > ->My initial experience with this distro is positive: > > <snip> > > ->8) All in all, this looks very much like Mandrake. > > > *** My obvious reaction would be "why not use Mandrake then?" I wouldn't > mind a bit more details about why this distro should be preferred above the > Mandrake.
One reason (for newbies, at least) might be the uncluttered distribution sequence - not very many choices, since everything critical is autodetected under the covers. Another reason might be - give the little guys a chance. Also, I like to tinker. My gentoo distro is so reliable, it's boring, so life on the edge helps me get by. Another reason might the the substantial amount of documentation that comes with the distro. Even topics like how to use autoconf, make, etc. that may prove helpful for newbies that want to stray into the realm of development. Why did I climb the mountain? Because it was there. > > ->Elx starts every imaginable daemon, including webmin and portmapper > ->and mysql. I'll have to > > > *** Yep, that looks much like Mandrake (a.k.a. Red Hat :-). With the > slight difference that Mandrake 8.1 asks what daemons you want to start at > boot before finishing the install. That is an advance in some respect. Elx > sounds to me as pre Mandrake 8.1, where the so called novice distributions > would start the most obscure and unnecessary daemons so the newbies could > be more easily hacked... > The daemons started aren't particularly obscure, just (from my standpoint only) unneeded. FYI, everything in the distro is quite up to date. Only the cups, e2fsprogs, glibc, and perl packages are one notch lower that what I have on gentoo. Elx has chosen rpm 4.0.3-1, so there shouldn't be the usual problem with rpms that fail to install because they are packaged for the newer rpm. All the development rpms have been installed, so installing more software should not be a problem. I'm looking forward to putting up xfce and upgrading the kernel. I'm not looking forward to dealing with rpm again - yuck! Thanks, Collins _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
