the 'which distro' question

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Sat Mar 3 09:13:32 PST 2007


Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>>>> My vote to Ubuntu and Fedora Core.
>>> Is it a problem for you that they use different package managing 
>>> systems?  Can you put rpm-based things on a Debian box?
>> I don't use mixed method. On FC, I use YUM. On Ubuntu, I use APT.
>> On both systems, I also use compiling from source tar-balls, as when I
>> was using Caldera OpenLinux. ;)
>>
> 
> Yes, I like the compile from source method!
> 

That sounds like another vote for gentoo.  The entire distro seems to be
compiled from source.  As are all updates.

    -- Alma



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