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[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks for the response.  I'm not worried about compile time.  It will be 
on a dual 1.9 AMD box.  I'll look them up, too.

Collins wrote:

> On Thu, 09 May 2002 18:38:40 -0700 "Net Llama!"
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue.  They just like to
>> make standards, rather than follow them.
>> 
> 
> I would call it "doing it their own damn way."  What they do
> (sometimes reluctantly) becomes standard just because everyone else
> gives up.
> 
> 
>> I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick.  Way too many religious
>> zealots.
>> 
> 
> Total agreement, but lots of people like it.  It's really the
> "old-time religion," emphasis on o-l-d.  They do, of course, have a
> development branch.  I could never get one of their base installs to
> run on my machines.
> 
>> Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a
>> wee bit too unstable for my taste.  I mean, devfs as the standard???
>>  What
>> were they thinking?
> 
> I guess I resemble that remark.  gentoo has been serving up devfs
> almost since day one, and I can't remember any failures due to devfs.
> As I said in another post, once you get the arcane syntax down (gentoo
> does it for you), you forget that it exists.
> 
>> 
>> SuSE has been gathering steam as a very dependable distro, although
>> i've never used it.
> 
> I never did like the SuSE all-in-one configuration file that hides all
> details of how linux systems really operate.
> 
>> 
>> So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on.
>> RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days.  I
>> think they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their
>> market share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the
>> needs to the l33t script kiddies.
> 
> Caldera and RedHat, though miles apart otherwise, share one attribute
> in common.  They like to do it their own way, to hell with any
> standards.  I've always thought of them as the Microsofts of the linux
> world: we're big enough to do it just because we can, and you have to
> lump it.
> 
> As someone else said, ELX is putting together a nice distro for less
> talented users, but, unfortunately performance sucks.
> 
> Which brings me back to gentoo.  Once you bite the bullet of a few
> days compile time, you won't ever need another distro.  gentoo tries
> to adhere pretty much to the evolving Linux Standard Base.  The init
> scripts, on the other hand, and the installation packager deviate
> completely from any sort of standard.  The gentoo developers are quite
> responsive to problem reports and helping out as long as you do your
> homework and post exact details.
> 
> There is no perfect distro.  You pays you money (hopefully little),
> and you takes you chances.
> 
> 

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