Linux "distribution" census
R I Feigenblatt
docdtv at america.net
Sat Jan 21 23:34:07 EST 1995
Okay.
Time to see which end of the egg you open first, heretic dog! :-)
Herewith this thread starts a census of which Linux distribution(s)
you use and/or have installed.
Q1. Please give full name(s) and version(s) and/or date(s).
From whence cometh thy holy writ? The Net? A CD-ROM?
Perchance a mongrel of thine own hand from multiple sources?
Q2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the various
distributions you have tried?
Q3. Are these factors strongly dependent on your CS background
and/or hardware base?
Until "Consumer Reports" starts doing its job, it's up to us!
Me first.
A1. I have tried (a) Softlanding Linux System (SLS) version 1.02
and (b) Yggdrasil "Plug-and-Play" Fall 1994,
both via purchased CDs.
A2. > In SLS the "selection" utility (plain tty mouse cut & paste)
worked, in Ygg it did not. Phooey!
> Having written sysgen scripts for SLS, I liked the quick
start of Ygg, but I disliked having to sit and type manually
when running as user "install"(?) under Ygg. The Ygg people
should allow you to store your answers to their installation
script on a floppy, whose drive you can name, to automate
reinstallation. (Oh, I suppose you've never lost your
hard disk, have you?)
> SLS and Ygg both let you install various amounts of software.
Ygg includes a nice (but highly underpublicized) utility to
migrate user-defined filelists from the CD to the HD, t
speed things up. But better yet would be a daemon which
migrated files semi-permanently depending on user access
history and user-specified trade-off parameters. See my
discussion on the all-but-silent Yggdrasil mailing list:
yggdrasil-users run by Majordomo at yggdrasil.com
> I could get my Metro-Link Metro-X X11.5 Version 1.0.1
Motif Developer/Runtime software, sold as compatible
with my SLS, to run under my Ygg. (I was Tcl'ed pink.)
> I like Ygg better, perhaps because it is a year younger.
A3. > Given an infinite hard disk, the CD-resident file issue
would be moot. I hate sysadmin stuff (does anyone like it?)
and I guess I should start looking at Net archives to see
what tools have emerged.
Now its your turn.
Ron
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