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Ajay_Chahar
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 Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:18 am Post subject: Gentoo vs Debian vs Fedora vs Frugalware |
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Hey ur VIEWS  |
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omp
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Don't you think we'll be a little biased? 
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Athas
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richard_ablitt
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My VIEWS:
Gentoo - takes a comparitively long time to get set up, but is well documented. Fairly easy to keep up to date and stable.
Debian - Faster installation, but I've always had to edit xorg.conf/xfree86.conf to get X working following installation. Slight tradeoff between up to dateness and stability, but testing tends to work well.
Fedora - Haven't used much. Fairly trivial to install, but not as much software in the repositories. Didn't last long on my computer before I went back to Ubuntu or something.
Frugalware - Never heard of it |
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hellfire7
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Gentoo - takes a lot of time to set up (even if you know what you`re doing) but once it`s done it`s done. The good documentation is a huge plus.
Fedora - tried it for several weeks but it couldn`t last on my pc for long. Somewhat trickier to set up in the beginnig (maybe because i have little experience with fedora), some of the things i needed weren`t in the repositories (even the ones i added besides the deffault repositories) but in the end i managed to get it working as i like.
Debian - whatever i try i always get back to debian. I liked Gentoo but in the end i switched back to debian. Relatively easy, very nice packege manager and unstable is enough stable for me. Maybe it`s not a coincidence that some of the most popular distributions are debian derivats.
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curtis119
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Frugalware for t3h w1n. Gentoo sucks ass.
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mark_alec
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| curtis119 wrote: | | Frugalware for t3h w1n. Gentoo sucks ass. |
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pjp
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With the mullet on the retail box, Red Neck Linux beats all y'all's commie bastards un-American OSes.
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curtis119
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| pjp wrote: | | With the mullet on the retail box, Red Neck Linux beats all y'all's commie bastards un-American OSes. |
You might be a Linux Redneck if...
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DaveArb
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| YmbaLRi... wrote: | | Your root password is "Bubba". |
Damn hackers...  <Dave trudges off to change root password>
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