Wow... this has gotten really off topic. Lets just say "If it's Linux, it's good." and be done with it. Apple is ahead, Microsoft is behind. Linux distros are just perfectly in the middle. All of them.
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:15 AM, doki_pen <[email protected]> wrote: > John Haltiwanger wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:30 AM, doki_pen <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> doki_pen wrote: >> >> John Haltiwanger wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >> If someone wants to get to know their computer, there is >> always Arch. Or Gentoo, if they ever get their overlay >> issues worked out. (Or slack or,... n+1). Arch is the best >> of option out there right now for a second (or third or >> fourth) distro, but Ubuntu is easily the best 'first >> distro' around, in my experience. >> >> And what, prey tell, is the overlay issue? >> >> lol, I really need some coffee.. My grammar really isn't _that_ bad. >> >> >> >> Not sure if you are still wondering, but my experience most recent >> experience with Gentoo (March 09) has been a mess of overlays, something >> that was never an issue before. To get an even halfway recent ebuild for an >> app I had to jump through a bunch of overlay hoops, with each overlay >> potentially adding incompatabilities. The net effect is that the main >> portage tree felt stagnant. When I used Gentoo as the deployment Linux when >> I administered a computer lab in 2006, I never even heard mention of an >> overlay. Now it seems that adding an overlay is the first step mentioned in >> installing apps in Gentoo. > > That's no good. I don't find the need to use overlays very often. What I > like about gentoo is that (like Arch) creating packaging scripts is dead > simple. I have my own overlay for stuff I need more up-to-date then what > gentoo provides. But it's very rare. Usually unmasking things is enough > for me. Only code that I actually work on has to be tip. I guess it really > depends on what you are doing though, for a dev box, I love it. > -- ~devyn
