Having used both Gentoo and Ubuntu for some time now, I can share my thoughts on both of them.
Gentoo by default would be lighter, but no reason you can not do the same with Ubuntu. Just use the server install. Ubuntu is much simpler and I have learned to really like the debian apt-get package management. Gentoo's package management while good, I stopped using it awhile back because people where putting things into portage that were far from stable, and some of it was down right broken. Hopefully they have fixed that, but that was what turned me off on the distro. Gentoo though does have some of the BEST documentation and howtos of any distro. I still use their howtos because most of it applies to any distro. But as Pat mentioned, if you have a friend who will help. Use what he uses. Gentoo is an excellent learning tool if you do a bootstrap install, course that will take a little bit of time :). -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49951 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
