Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 29 November 2004 22:30, Sid Boyce wrote:
Allen wrote:
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/0/4662743FE8FF0106CC256F56007A25C7?O penDocument
Long link but a good read. I've been plugging for SUSE since I first used it and nothing can touch it. The only thing that even comes CLOSE is Slackware. SUSE is really getting up to par on the business world, and I think it's great. And look at the screen shot towards the bottom! BEAUTIFUL!
Take that XP, RedHat, Sco, And every other shitty OS.
SuSE has been my main distro for quite a few years, I switched from rolling my own from version 0.0x to MCC to SLS to Caldera to RedHat to SuSE. Right now I'm using SuSE 9.2, Mandrake 10.1 and gentoo-2004.3 and all are excellent. A word about gentoo - I'd heard it was fast and excellent for learning about Linux. The install took ages (about 38 hours on a Athlon 700/256M) with much less than half an hour of my keyboard time giving it hostname, IP addressing etc., if I was hoping to learn about Linux from that, I'd have learned nothing as it did it all by itself. Installing mythtv was as simple as typing "emerge mythtv" and let it do the rest, I thought I'd try something outlandish like mythtv just to see if I would hit a problem - none. Linux has got too easy by and large.
"Too easy to learn much from", you mean, or in another way? Just curious to know what you mean there, Sid. Haven't had a go with Gentoo, though i did build the 'Linux from scratch' from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ a while ago. I did learn a bit doing that, but being an old git I have largely forgotten it. It was interesting that the recipe was good enough for a know-nothing to follow and end up with a full Linux install, kde, etc.
Cheers Fergus
Exactly that, you put the boot CD in, give it a command to build sever or workstation, select the packages you need, e.g kde, gnome, etc., give it the network details, root password and it does the rest automatically, reboot and it's up. Then you have to learn about "emerge". I've build and installed a new kernel.org kernel, installed the latest nvidia driver manually, everything else is done using emerge, like "emerge mythtv", it works out all the dependencies and installs them, on SuSE and Mandrake, just sorting out the mythtv packages is difficult. The gentoo docs site is good and I knew what packages I needed, that's perhaps what might confuse a total newbie. I had a read of "Linux from Scratch" going back a while, that's different, you have to learn and do things, with gentoo, it downloads and builds the latest gcc first, then on it's own merry way it goes, I just popped in every few hours to check it was still going. I woke up one morning and noticed it was ready for a reboot, rebooted it --- done. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====