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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I work almost entirely with Gentoo now
that I no longer run machines for other people; *my* standards
tend to be higher ;) . I can and have done Gentoo on the desktop
but my main eyeballs-on-screen relationship is with Apple OS X and
most of the time, the machines I operate have Xorg going but are
run pretty much headless and all X is remote.<br>
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I don't understand the comment "the maintenance cost is high;" the
$ cost is of course zero and as far as the maintenance <i>effort</i>,
you can be as assiduous as you want to be and you can also
automate anything you want. In my experience, institutionalized
Linux systems are only doing a relatively small number of things
anyway and therefore the number of packages you really care about
keeping current may be only a handful. The one fairly recent time
I've dealt with CentOS and tried to do the same thing on Gentoo to
see where the gotchas lay, I discovered that a nice feature in a
major upgrade of CUPS that made life a whole lot simpler was
simply ready and waiting for me in Gentoo whereas trying to
surgically do the same thing in current CentOS, while achievable,
would have been a supportability nightmare for me and any who came
after me. <br>
<br>
All I can say is that I build tough, fast, and highly controllable
Gentoo machines. Life without Gentoo is not problem-free, but I
recall vividly that there were <i>entire classes</i> of problems
encountered when trying to do real work with CentOS/RHEL that
simply were not part of my world.<br>
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On 3/1/15 7:59 AM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I can second Gentoo. It's a great place to learn.
But the maintenance cost is high. I currently only have one box
running Gentoo. I've been using mint for about a year or so.
Great general purpose distribution, it's based on ubuntu.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:49 AM,
DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span>
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02/28/2015 07:19 PM, Edward James Monson, II wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I've been using various flavors of Ubuntu for about 5
years, and I'm ready to<br>
> try something new. I'm fairly comfortable with the
command line. I'm curious<br>
> what distributions people on this list use, and how
they rate in difficulty<br>
> compared to Ubuntu. I'd also prefer to use something a
lot of other people<br>
> use so I have more people I can run to for help. :)<br>
<br>
Depends on your goals for learning something new.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/11/05/learning-linux-easy-to-hard"
target="_blank">http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/11/05/learning-linux-easy-to-hard</a><br>
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If you are in the US and want to be a Linux admin or
programmer, centos or<br>
fedora would make sense.<br>
<br>
If you want to be a kernel dev, gentoo.<br>
<br>
If you want to learn the internals, just for fun, and
constantly tweak things<br>
that break - arch.<br>
<br>
If you just need a distro for online banking - TinyCore.<br>
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