Re: Alternatives that don´t suck?

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]

>
> I've already tried it.  $DAYJOB requires me to test against every
> major distro out there (see http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
> for the list), so I'm not just shooting off at the mouth with no
> context.  I've used them all, and they all suck in unique ways.

Well, we agree on something here.  We also agree the Debian zealotry
is irritating, but I see none of that on this list.

The "iceweasel" name fork was Mozilla's idea (rammed down Debian's
throat).  But you can install Firefox.

I personally install all systems now using pxe/netboot.  OTOH, almost
every system has it's own set of custom packages, but since it takes
less then 10 min w/ a decent connection to have a system up and
running w/ the basics, I'm happy (when tasksel comes up I turn
everything off, make sure openssh-server is installed before rebooting
and get to the cusomizations when I get to the customizations -- I
can't install any system in less than twice the time).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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