The evolution of Fedora Core Linux

[Collins Richey]

On 2/22/06, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > Actually, i was talking about Gentoo as well.
>
> Well, what you said was:
>
> "They don't call them Gentoo Ricers for nothing."
>
> That is a comment about *your* perception of Gentoo *users*.
> Again, we can agree to disagree without being insulting.
>
> > package selection nightmares, GEntoo is the granddaddy of them all, with a
> > maze of packages, and no well engineered mechanism for someone
> > inexperienced to select them, and worse, spending hours waiting for the
> > multitude of interdependencies to get installed.
>
> My experience is that its dead easy to find and install anything in the
> package tree since there are tools in Gentoo to manage all that quite
> well.
>
> I also guess you missed the comment about the regular base install being a
> stage 3 (i.e. binary install) now. If you want additional packages you
> just install what you need and the dependencies are taken care of. It
> still ends up being pretty minimal which suits me fine.
>

You pays you money (zilch), and you takes you chances. I've gotten
good results and found mostly sane and helpful users with Gentoo,
Fedora, CentOS, [K]ubuntu, so I'm not interested in put downs. A
modern version of any of these will provide you with a good Linux
experience, the one caveat being that Fedora and the development
branch of [K]ubuntu can be a rough ride at times, but that's what you
expect from a development system.

I've had less than outstanding results with Mand[rake|riva] and SuSE,
but I'm sure others like these just fine.

--
Collins Richey
      The agnostic dyslexic insomniac lies awake wondering if there is a dog.