Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro

Net Llama! netllama
Fri May 27 21:39:14 PDT 2005


On 05/27/2005 06:43 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 5/26/05, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ain't it great that you have a choice?  For historical reasons, I have
>> little desire to even give RH another try.  SuSE and Gentoo are more
>> than good enough.  I believe that I run on significantly different
>> hardware and with different purposes in mind.
>> 
> 
> Yep, it's simply amazing how many choices there are and how few of the
> choices (if any) get it all right. I'm still fond of Gentoo, although
> I'm running CentOS (RedRat light) for the forseeable future. I've
> never been able to stomach the SuSE Yast concept - one humongous
> program to maintain hundreds of config files, and which config files
> did Yast change, BTW? As for Ubuntu, they've (maybe it's simply
> Debian?) managed to make a simple grub.conf complex and difficult to
> understand!

Doesn't Gentoo have a crazy long grub.conf too?  I can't remember if its 
Debian and/or Gentoo, but one of them has the most ridiculously long 
grub.conf I've ever seen.  Its like 120+ lines.


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