[CS-FSLUG] Distro flame

[Christopher Rose]

I do not know if I will ever truly be happy with my linux distro. It usually works the way I need it to, but I know that there are and will be limitations. Currently I use Red Hat 9 (silicon based robotic monkey/elephant that I am). I am not too thrilled with what I have seen in regards to Fedora. Quite frankly, if I could migrate my files onto another distribution without having to back up my files, I would consider it. As it stands, the closest I can get to that is when I am running the Live-CD version of Slax. However, I do not want to run a live boot-CD whenever I am going to use my computer. I want to have both CD/DVD devices available and a live boot does not always allow that.

Any rate, guess I am not of much help. Almost never am.

Pax,

Christopher




----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>
To: Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com>, "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Distro flame
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:02:55 -0600

> 
> On October 21, 2004 06:54 pm, Don Parris wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:02:29 -0600, N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > > On October 21, 2004 12:09 am, Chris Brault wrote:
> > > > Hmmmm ...
> > > >
> > > > > > Oh, almost forgot to kick off the distro flame
> > > > >
> > > > > war, remember everyone
> > > > >
> > > > > > this is all in good fun. Mandrake was coded by
> > > > >
> > > > > frogs, SUSE by lizards,
> > > > >
> > > > > > Slackware and Gentoo by people who love self
> > > > >
> > > > > inflicted pain and Gnome by
> > > > >
> > > > > > monkeys :-) .
> > > >
> > > > I guess that leaves Fedora Core 3 on top yet again.
> > >
> > > I love the optimism there, its encouraging to see that someone likes
> > > their favourite distribution enough to jump in like that and say its #1
> > > because I forgot to say anything about it. Chris (or do you preffer
> > > Groundhog?), if I don't find a KDE based distribution I may very well
> > > install FC3 and XFCE myself just to see what they could have done to get
> > > you to like it so much, I may even find it to be a great GTK/Gnome
> > > distribution myself :-) .
> >
> > But I thought you were after the QT toolkit - not GTK???  Or do you
> > really know for sure? 
> 
> I'm probably never going to switch away from Qt as long as I can afford to use 
> it, right now I've got a free edition for use in Windows but when I update my 
> Linux distribution to anything with a version of Qt newer then 3.2.x then I 
> won't be able to work on my programs in Linux and have them compile in 
> Windows. As far as GTK goes thats only claimed to be portable, in Windows you 
> have to go to much more trouble to distribute a GTK app then you would 
> distributing a Qt app in Windows and WxWidgets and FOX didn't have any books 
> (for that matter neither did GTK).
> 
> > I must say, while I had tinkered with Red Hat 
> > 5.2/7.2 and Mandrake 8.0 (and like it very much), it was SUSE that
> > finally brought me into full-time use.  The thing I like about
> > Mandrake is that their setup (at least, in the past) offered a choice
> > between workstation and server setups.  I just thought that was very
> > well planned.
> 
> The earlier versions seemed to have a lot more redeaming qualities then the 
> newers ones, I had no major complaints about Mandrake 9.1 that would have 
> stopped me from using the distribution but now I'm not too pleased with the 
> latest versions of any of the distributions I used to be comfortable with.
> 
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