While I haven't used plain Debian, I've had Ubuntu on two laptops for a couple of years now. With each release the installation gets easier, and the distro as a whole get slicker. I like it a lot.
My slimserver box (which also does NFS/Samba/Subversion/NTP and other stuff) is a low-powered KuroBox and runs Gentoo. It's true that Gentoo does take more time to install, and periodic updates are obviously slower than a binary-package distro, but it doesn't bother me much. I tend to do login via ssh every two weeks or so to do "emerge --sync" and "emerge world", and leave it running in a detached _'Gnu_Screen' (http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)_ terminal... Of course, the slow updates are annoying occasionally. For example, an ebuild SlimServer 6.5.2 appeared on my box a couple of days ago, so I "emerge world" to try it out. Unfortunately, a new "glibc" had appeared too... so two days later it's still compiling ;-) Your mini-itx box will be *significantly* faster! Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36236 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
