-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have done quite a bit of research on gentoo. It does look quite enticing with it's "roll your own" attitude. I'm going to try and put it to the test this week by doing a laptop install. I've found out with quite a few different OS's (QNX, any of the BSD's, Darwin for X86, Solaris for X86, and BeOS) that a desktop install is no problem, but laptops are a whole different breed. There is always issues with video chipsets, network cards (especially wireless). Hopefully everything goes without a hitch.
On another note... Not sure if I'm going to be around for some bbq action. If I do make it, I'll try and conjure up some chips or cookies. mike On Mon July 21 2003 7:09 pm, Daniel Kuecker wrote: > i reccomend gentoo!! > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Schieuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:35 PM > Subject: [sclug-general] taking another look at Red Hat... > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > So I've been on the Red Hat bandwagon since forever.... I've installed > > about > > > every distro out there and found that Red Hat just seems to fit pretty > > well. > > > I was reading through the following link... > > > > http://rhl.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ > > > > These release notes for the next beta layout a few items here and there. > > What > > > I was most surprised to see was some of the packages not being > > distributed > > in > > > this release and some that may be dropped in later releases. > > > > It looks like pine is on the cut list, because it's not open-source? > > > > http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html > > > > I don't know about a lot of you, but pico is a command I use multiple > > times a > > > day..... Another note worthy cut is lilo. GRUB is going to be the > > recommended boot loader. It just seems to me Red Hat is taking some more > > of > > > the user choices and cutting them out. I don't know if anyone has ever > > had > > > to boot a system into single user mode to reset the root password, but I > > know > > > from experience doing it with GRUB sucks. > > Needless to say I think it's time for me to pack up my toys and look for > > a different distro. > > > > Mike > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/HFyWmUFtrUUciv4RAn5eAJ4wJl5GmHpqCTbe4pXVxG7xf+OrZACgieDU > > lHGEni8igNA3HmsK6iMX1eQ= > > =4s/Y > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/HJehmUFtrUUciv4RAr8WAJ0Za6LcfkwokPDBdOkRWOGGcz8GrQCcD8tQ 7tFc/k0+anXNbxAEoi9rWmo= =UQtU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
