Linux linux linux...

[piranha]

Opensuse11 comes out soon, and it has much faster package management.
Maybe that would work...
-JL

Suse has package management?

Que?

[Alboin]

Opensuse11 comes out soon, and it has much faster package management.
Maybe that would work...
-JL

Suse has package management?

Que?

I've used 9.3, 10, 10.1, and 10.3 quite a bit, and there is no central collection of programs, with a nice, quick interface. With gentoo, I can just type "emerge x", and be (generally) done with it. However, with Suse, I had to find an RPM, download it, and hope I had all of the dependencies. It was to the point where downloading the tarballs would have just been simpler.

Recently, I've had success with their new Build Service. (Which is what they had been missing - a centralized repository.) However, atm, it's somewhat small. Hopefully this will fix their issues, but until then, it still fails.

Adios,
Alboin

[piranha]

It has the yast system, which has an easy to use package installer.

-JL

[Osbios]

The Package system was one reason I stayed with Debian. And now also Ubuntu.

On other distributions I've seen so many bugs. I don't know how it is today. I'm happy with my dabian and relatives.

[Zacariaz]

I've read a lot about Gentoo and I must say that it seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, assuming, of course, that it works as well as described, however, it does have one major drawback, which I'm unable to get around. The installation process is very complicated, at least to me it is, thus I cannot install it without the help of the handbook, which is also a problem, since I have only one computer. Also, it would seem that the best method of installation is networked, however, the installation cd does not support my wireless hardware and a wireless connection is the only connection available at the moment.

Well, it's complicated, however, I do believe that I'm able to do it, as opposed to a LFS solution, which I was very interested in at some point, but it wont happen for at least twp weeks, as I simply doesn't have the means.

That life I suppose...

[DeletedAccount]

Hi ,
Slackware Linux is the best linux distro out there . It is the most userfriendly and customizable distro . I have tried and used lots of distros , Slackware was the first distro I tried and it's the best out there . You may also check out Mandrake (Mandriva ) Linux and its varients . Mandriva is also pretty good (Although not as good as Slackware!).
Regards
Evil Sandeep

[Zacariaz]

People have different criteria for what they believe to be the best Linux distribution, thus saying that Slackware is the best, doesn't cut it.

I am of course still glad to hear your opinion.

[babylon2233]

I prefer Ubuntu for numbers of package available and Fedora for coolness

[Zacariaz]

Ok, I have really done an effort to install a stage3 Gentoo, however, I didn't get much further than unpacking the stage3 and portage snapshot. It's not only my fault, but if things don't work as they should I simply cannot install it, I don't have the experience.

So, it looks like I'm staying with Debian too.

[JackScott]

It's not a big deal. Debian is the best anyway.

[Brynet-Inc]

It's not a big deal. Debian is the best anyway.

Their most recent OpenSSL screw up seems to prove otherwise.

Zacariaz, Have you considered BSD? livecd's exist based on FreeBSD/OpenBSD.. and then there is the spiffied up fisher-price PC-BSD project.

Personally, you can't get much lighter then OpenBSD though...

[eax]

I will say gentoo as well, IF you can handle the install its great, I never used tolike ubuntu but am using it atm it seems to have come on leaps and bounds. Good thing about gentoo though is once you have it installed you know where everything is and portage is a truely great system, you can use the dev tools and concentrate on error checking your dev enviroment as opposed to error checking your tools because of a bugged install. I guess all OS types/distros have their merits though

[Zacariaz]

I actually think that I can handle a regular Gentoo install, but last time I tried I had trouble updating the portage tree, which coursed a lot of trouble somehow. Also there is a few unclear issues in the handbook.

I'll wait for the 2008.0 release and then try again.

[earlz]

OpenBSD is a good alternative to Linux if your not afraid of a command line.. lol

[Zacariaz]

I not afraid of the command line. I am, however, afraid of commands that should work, but don't.