[LUNI] What distro are you using?

[Samir Faci]

the reasons I use gentoo.

#1 portage.  I haven't found a package manager that includes nearly as many
software packages out of the box.. and as simple to use.  Apt-get comes
close.. but i find myself adding 3rd party repos and breaking everything
because of it.
#2.  it's a clean install.  It's very minimalistic, if I don't need it, I
don't install it.
#3.  It's extremely versatile.  You always keep hearing that gentoo is the
first distro to run on X, y, z.  First distro that ran on Intel macs,
supports a wide array of architectures.  etc.
#75 or so at the bottom is the speed.. whatever.. 10% ...2%  don't really
care that much.. i connect to gentoo over ssh + screen.. what do I care for
the 2% increase.  At least I don't for the uses I've had with it.

I don't particularly like the fact that's I have to wait for it to compile..
but I do like the ability to pre-define what use flags/options i want and
have it install just that.  Although unrealistic.. a gentoo distro that's
binary based would be ideal for me.

But anyways...   in the end pick somethin you're comfortable with.  I'm a
gentoo fanboy..and my sick twisted fetish for bleeding edge software (I
always want to play with the latest thing that's out.. linux, windows..
etc), kind of goes hand in hand with gentoo.

If I had the time to learn BSD I'd probably go with freebsd as an
alternative.  I tried using Ubuntu, but I just found out that it's not
compatible with me... i try to set a config file and then their "user
friendly" tools try to read my mind and override my configs.

Or some other random thing that ends up breaking the distro one way or
another.  Anyways... if ANYONE but me is using ubuntu it's a very stable
distro.  Though I wouldn't use it for a server


my 2 cents.

--
Samir

On 2/18/08, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 18, 2008 9:30 AM, William Scott Lockwood III
>
> <scott at cashnetusa.com> wrote:
> > Ubuntu? The whole reason to run Gentoo seems to be trying to squeeze
> > extra performance out of the hardware, which is an argument I've never
> > bought. What's been your experience?
>
>
> Gentoo is faster, but not by a huge amount :-)  It's enough to make a
> difference if you run a server, but most likely not for a desktop.  I
> hear figures around < 10% advantage...
> --
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
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> difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
> watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
> failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
> Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878
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