On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 17:20, Devon Holcombe wrote: > > Matt King > > >Why are you switching? > > The main reason I am considering switching is ease of maintenance and > updates for the noncritical portions of the system. Critical portions will > still need more attention and maintenance/compilation by hand of course. > Debian also seems to have more available documentation and a more active > user community. That's not to say there aren't a lot of good people out > there running Slackware, they just tend to be more closeted and less > active(not sure if that's because it runs so well or....more likely they are > just a more self reliant type user as Slackware requires so less active...). > That said Debian is still reasonably fast and much like Slackware does not > have a lot of nonstandard modifications so far as I can tell and any that it > does have are Free and open to use elsewhere should I end up a user on > another *nix OS that I have no admin control over.
I switched to Gentoo. I am finding emerge and portage to be very useful and handy tools. The install for Gentoo is a longer process, but you really break out of the packaged vs. unpackages problems with binary distros. The draw-back is waiting for OpenOffice to compile. =). They have been making some binary packages, and there is lots of work being done on that. However, the core of the distro is, and probably will remain, compiling it yourself. emerge is very nice, and aside from a lot of reading, the install docs are very complete. In the end, every distro has to combat bit-rot and version changes. I am waiting to see what happens with Gentoo. I tried 1.2 and it was a wreck. However, I am pretty happy with 1.4. I have only been running it in earnest for two months. However, I like it. I already have about 5 boxes with it, and I dig it. js _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
