[clue-tech] Distro musings

[Matt Gushee]

Collins Richey wrote:

> Slackware - my first - not enough packages

You clearly are a bloat-lover :-)

> Caldera - pretty good but SCO screwed the pooch

You must never have tried to adapt a RedHat package to Caldera <shudder>.

> Man[drake|driva] - never really liked it.

Yeah, I can't hear their new name without thinking about mandrills. Plus
they do weird things to the kernel.

> What I am always looking for  ...

Okay, I thought I might have a suggestion ...

> In essence, that means Debian (possibly Ubuntu) or Gentoo. I'll still
> hang onto my CentOS and Ubuntu (maybe that will be usable again in a
> month or so) setups, but most of my effort will go into completing my
> Gentoo system.

... but I guess you've made up your mind, so I won't say anything about 
Arch Linux, with which I've had very good experiences over the past 2 
years. I won't tell you that, although it's more bleeding edge than not, 
I've had very few cases of broken packages; or observe that the Arch 
approach of doing a few simple things very well probably helps minimize 
problems, or that the fact that it is a binary distro probably exposes 
many issues before packages are released. Nor will I tell you that the 
Arch community is by and large very sophisticated, but also more 
newbie-friendly than many I've seen.

;-)

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