Re: [Sheflug] Re: Suggestions of distro?

[Andrew Basterfield <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:28:27 +0000
Barrie Bremner <baz [at] barriebremner.com> wrote:

> Redhat - urgh. Clear out the cruft, and shut off services.
> 
> OpenBSD - erm - OK, figure out how to do anything, get patches,
> install ports. Hard work. Installing from the tarballs is a little
> wierd.

Don't let OpenBSD fool ya - it's really simple & KDE/gnome and all that
bloaty eyecandy is available precompiled. No need to mess with ports.

'pkg_add kdebase.tgz'

I'd much rather debug rc scripts in OpenBSD than RH/Mandrake :) A big
distro might install easily but it's hard work afterwards plugging the
holes, shutting down uneccesary serices etc.

> It might just be me, but I'd rather have something like Redhat (I
> guess SuSE and Mandrake too) that can get GNOME/KDE + user apps going
> in no time, plus server packages that aren't much harder.

Being a poor student I can't afford a machine that will run KDE2
acceptably
and if you want a secure system you really need to know what's going on
underneath.
Mandrake et al make it easier to use but much harder to learn. If it
breaks it's
often easier to re-install aka win98 than fix it.

> The BSDs are a little bit too much work for me, but I haven't spent
> much time learning up on them.

Time well spent.
 
> Roll on Woody tho :-)

Debian rocks!
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