Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-16 Thread Michael M.
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/15/06, vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't > like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a > Linux distro that has a ports

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread vayu
On May 15, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 5/15/06, vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't > like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking fo

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/15/06, vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't > like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a > Linux distro that has a ports like system. > > I need

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Bakki Kudva wrote: I have built both Gentoo and FreeBSD on an old laptop (Pentium II 400MHz with 384MB of RAM). The down side of both Gentoo and Ports, especially if you want to build a desktop env like Gnome plan on a week or more of build time. My latest experience with the ports was 2 weeks f

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Bakki Kudva
I have built both Gentoo and FreeBSD on an old laptop (Pentium II 400MHz with 384MB of RAM). The down side of both Gentoo and Ports, especially if you want to build a desktop env like Gnome plan on a week or more of build time. My latest experience with the ports was 2 weeks for the total build.

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
vayu wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installe

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread vayu
On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default...

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Linux distro that has a ports like system. I heard that gentoo has a port like system. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTE

Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a Linux distro that has a ports like system. I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default... dammit... I don't want to #$%! with Linux, maybe I'll