[ale] Favorite distros

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Byron A Jeff [mailto:byron at cc.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 1:14 PM
>
> While Gentoo has its flaws, which I described in an earlier
> post, I'm really pleasantly surprised with it so far. I've
> rebuilt in a couple of days what took me several months to
> cobble together on my Slackware 7.1 box. I had a time getting
> Ogle, mplayer, openoffice, and zine to run on my Slack box. A
> few emerges later and everything is already up on Gentoo.

There is only one thing better than Gentoos Packagae Management system
(imho):

The fact that Gentoo is so yong, and it is only gonna get better!

Can't wait for the full reverse-dependancy checking (uninstall something, it
uninstalls all packages that it is dependant on that are not also
dependancies for other programs)!

As for other distros:

SuSE would be my next choice, then Redhat, then Mandrake.  Never used
Slackware.

Charles


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