ugenn Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 I personally dislike debian though. Their stuff are usually behind by a couple of versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 ugenn, do you like Gentoo? Is it easy for n00bs to get into? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 ugenn, do you like Gentoo? Is it easy for n00bs to get into?I used to use Gentoo. It's a sourced based distribution that lets you build the system from source using an automated packaging system (portage). Kind of life Linux From Scratch but automated. It's extremely flexible as you get to choose and customize exactly what packages and optimizations you want. But it takes a long time to install (literally hours...days on really old machines / slow networks) due to the compilation times. I don't think it may be too suitable for n00bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 how about fedora, i was going to get red hat 9.0 but instead i got fedora 2.0 did i make a good choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 (edited) how about fedora, i was going to get red hat 9.0 but instead i got fedora 2.0 did i make a good choice?FC2 is more or less Redhat 11.0. RH (the company) stopped supporting the free version of RH in favour of their commercial RH Enterprise Server last year. FC is a community supported distro that takes off where RH left off. edit: to ans yr qn, yes. It's based on the 2.6 kernel. Edited July 16, 2004 by ugenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 i got fedora, debian 3 rl2 and slackware 10.0 (the first two cds) i wanted to get freebsd and freesbie (a live cd of freebsd) but couldn´t yet. i don´t know much about them exept that they are made from unix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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