[CS-FSLUG] Distro commentary
Eduardo Sanchez
lists at sombragris.org
Thu Apr 22 11:26:07 CDT 2004
Nathan, would you wait a little bit before switching from Slackware to
something else? I have something in the skunk works... Please be a
little patience.
Eduardo
(p.s.: This can be confirmed by Tim... I've sent him part of my
material)
On Thursday 22 April 2004 01:32, N. Thompson wrote:
> I've been thinking about distributions and whether I want to stick
with
> Slackware.
>
> I've had a fair chance to try it, with the help of lynx, google and
the
> man pages I've manage to get every aspect of my wheel mouse working,
> I've configured and compile the 2.6.5 kernel from source not once but
> twice both times with different features and I've fixed a great number
> of missed dependencies which were causing instabilities in KDE and
were
> keeping XFCE 4 from even running. I've even configured my HP deskjet
> straight from the cups www admin tool via lynx so yes Slackware is
> working nicely except for sound and the Nvidia drivers which don't
come
> for the 2.6.5 kernel yet.
>
> The problem is that right now I'm working for my computer right now
and
> not the other way around, sure I could get it working the way I wanted
> but for what I need I'm doing much more then what is necessary and I
> could be at this for days, furthermore I'm going to end up doing much
of
> it over again later on anyway as I want to explore more of the options
> available in the kernel. Right now I see my most favourable options as
> being Mandrake and SUSE because both are the closest things to being
the
> ideal easy distribution.
>
> I'm not saying slackware is too hard, it was very easy and straight
> forward as long as I could find the right information, certainly the
> Linux from scratch book was a big help as was the book on slackware
> available at the slackware site but in the end it was just a matter of
> how much work I wanted to do compared to how much free time I wanted
to
> have. Durring the last two days of my spring break I learned a lot
about
> Linux which will be usefull in the future but at the same time I've
been
> regretting not being able to spend that time working on my programs
and
> getting school work done.
>
> Trying Fedora Core 1 and Slackware has been an excellent learning
> opportunity and the distributions aren't bad but there is a reason I
> like SUSE and Mandrake and that's convenience, right now Slackware and
> FC just don't meat my needs. I've satisfied my curiosity, I've seen
what
> a distribution that installs software frorm source was like (and I did
a
> lot of that without pkgtool too) and I've had a chance to see what
> Fedora Core was like. I also got to see whether I could run a
> distribution with no configuration software and I've had an
interesting
> time doing so but realistically SUSE and Mandrake are the best
> candidates for me, I'm very accustomed to both (moreso to MDK which
I've
> used the most out of any distro) and both suit my needs, it seems
> logical to me to switch back to one of those two.
>
> With what I've learned in FC and moreso Slackware I doubt I'll be
having
> too much more trouble with Mandarke and SUSE, I've learned how to get
a
> system going from a terminal and base install with KDE, I've learned
> that source based distros are no more on the bleeding edge then the
big
> distros such as MDK, SUSE, RH and Debian are (and they are not
> necessarily as stable either).
>
> I think after this experience I'll finally have satisfied my curiosity
> enough to stick to that ideal distro when I find it if I haven't found
> it yet. Who knows whether I'll stumble across something I like better
> then SUSE or MDK but for the time being I think I could finally be
happy
> to pick one and stick with it (probably MDK if their 10.0 official
> download is decent, if not then SUSE or maybe Linspire [Lindows]
because
> I've gotten two free copies already in promotional giveaways by the
> company and with tweaking I'm sure it could be made sanitary ;-) ).
>
> _______________________________________________
> ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list
> Christiansource at ofb.biz
> http://cs.uninetsolutions.com
>
--
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
--------------------------------------------------------------
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep:
And Bahram, that great Hunter--the Wild Ass
Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
--------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the Christiansource
mailing list