From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:35:09 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTim4K5Axm8kEGfVgm+w0o+dkY_Zx1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwpf7zgt.fsf@newsguy.com>
On 2011-04-19, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>> I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the
>> Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody
>> else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything
>> yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to
>> confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into
>> all this.
>
> Jumping into the asbestos drawers... the sterling things about Debian
> are that it is more oldschool than ubuntu and its good for when you
> get sick of compiling everything from scratch over and over.
>
> For some things, I don't care if I'm accepting someone elses' defaults.
>
> I've stuck with Gentoo for several yrs now for my main desktop and
> would be very unwilling to switch for that usage, however, I prefer
> Debian for virtual guests on windows. It just installs right off,
> when you need a full linux OS in a bit of a hurry.
>
I still think Debian installed too many things I don't use. When I
need a Linux VM in a hurry, I'd go Arch. Some people worry about its
unsigned packages, but as long as I stick to well-known mirrors, I
should be okay.
The beauty of Arch is that its installation is very granular; I can
truly pick components I want to have, and leave out those I won't ever
use.
But if I *do* have the time, I'll always take the Gentoo-route :)
--
Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer
My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-19 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-17 15:22 [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last! Alan Mackenzie
2011-04-17 16:42 ` James Wall
2011-04-17 23:58 ` Mark Shields
2011-04-18 4:52 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-19 2:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-04-19 3:35 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-04-19 5:59 ` Mick
2011-04-19 22:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Kfir Lavi
2011-04-20 0:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-20 8:32 ` Kfir Lavi
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