I used RedHat five years ago but quickly got fed up having to
chase down dependencies and got Debian. Only trouble I have had
since then was when I started using recent ConTeXts and couldn't
go with the default tetex, but texlive is easy enough to install.
I started using gentoo about a year ago on another system and
found it largely excellent but being a source distribution it
trades small performance gains for sometimes *very* long install
(or rather build) times. Also, there were some package/version
inconsistencies causing install failures, but these were
resolved within a few weeks. I have used modem and adsl with
debian, and adsl with gentoo without problem. ReiserFS on both
for a long time.
Well, back to work, thesis refuses to write itself ...
--
Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh
t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm
m +46735521477 Sweden
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the
will to find out, which is the exact opposite"
-- Bertrand Russell
----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote:
... Comparing the two, the debian testing distribution has never been less> than stable while gentoo testing is updated faster, but has given me trouble at some points.
Sorry for the noise if this is inappropriate information for this list, no problem; here i have been using suse for years; i am considering gentoo, but i'm not sure about it yet; suse only ships stable releases which is why updating pieces of the system is tricky; the problem is (as always) in the gui part; somehow the interfaces to the libs change (too) often.
(one of the reasons for choosing suse is that it is very well equiped for european situations (modems, adsl, etc) and shipped with state of the art journaling filesystems like reiser as well as raid support; that time our webserver came with redhat ... well, that was a real pain, esp secutity updating (unless one paid); suse's updating is automatic and ok)
Hans
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