On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 18:01 -0600, Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2006 September 03 Sunday 05:35:10 PM -0600, Matthew Walker wrote: > > > In general, I like a small, clean distro that's got no bells or > > > whistles, unless I add them myself. At first I thought that's what > > > Debian would be, and it was, until I got into this whole Lisp mess. > > > Does anyone have any recommendations? > > > > You just described Gentoo. > Gentoo is no small distro. The database for the packages is quite large. There is a possibility to build binaries with one machine with Gentoo, and then distribute those, and then mount the database over nfs, but it can be quite tricky.
> I'll concur that gentoo is very flexible, but is still structured with > stable, testing, and unstable branches for each arch. However gentoo > seems to be easier to track down difficult bugs mainly because of how > much control you have over what packages are installed (and how they are > installed) on your system. The transparency and flexibility of the > distro is what keeps me with gentoo despite of sometimes long compile > times although that can be much helped with caching. It always amazes > me how easy of a distro gentoo is to use despite it's flexibility. > Gentoo is very flexible, and I like it for it's flexibility, and that is why I use it. However if someone just wants something up and running with the necessary software I usually recommend Ubuntu. I find Ubuntu quite appealing. I bet an Ubuntu install could be stripped down, but the user would need to have the skills. > Justin > Nothing more to say other than I was adding a few tidbit myself to Justin's response. Brian Beardall /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
