Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: SimplyMEPIS distro

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I have a 32 line grub.conf file for my gentoo box.  But then, I am 
selecting from four OS's.  I have heard that the debian can get gnarly.

     -- Alma