24 Jun 2009, 7:37 am
24 Jun 2009, 1:42 pm
24 Jun 2009, 1:55 pm
Whats all this hardcore linux distro stuff? even Torvalds uses Fedora. 
I never understood why some people insist on saying a certain distro is superior to another cause its somehow more hardcore or for *real* linux geeks. People have their own reasons (ranging from professional to practical to downright irrational) for why they use what they use. I use Ubuntu (practical reasons) on desktops, CentOS (professional reasons) for servers, it does what I need and I love it. I have used almost everything though with a fair degree of comfort, including Gentoo and Slackware.
Slack is nice though, IMHO, near impossible to maintain up-to-date software on, but there are a few projects these days that you can use to maintain your slack install with the ease of operation as many other distributions.
24 Jun 2009, 2:02 pm
He uses it for simplicity sake, but for the sake of tweaking ones system Slackware is almost unmatched. I mean do you honestly believe the man who birthed it would really want to delve into his install's nuts and bolts, whilst he is delving into the codes nuts and bolts?
Also I didn't say Slackware is superior, just probably the best to tweak.
24 Jun 2009, 2:05 pm
He uses it for simplicity sake, but for the sake of tweaking ones system Slackware is almost unmatched. I mean do you honestly believe the man who birthed it would really want to delve into his install's nuts and bolts, whilst he is delving into the codes nuts and bolts?
Also I didn't say Slackware is superior, just probably the best to tweak.
well, if we were to really get hardxcore about this, the best to tweak would likely be building the system yourself like following a gentoo build manual from stage 1, but thats obvious. did it *once*
24 Jun 2009, 2:07 pm
I mean tweak in the sense of customisation, not crazily compiling all my OS from source, son that isn't tweaking, that is giving birth (and just as painful on a 386 probably
)
24 Jun 2009, 2:08 pm
I mean tweak in the sense of customisation, not crazily compiling all my OS from source, son that isn't tweaking, that is giving birth (and just as painful on a 386 probably
)haha, I guess I cant argue with that one at all
Nothing was quite like that experience, after that I built a cross compilation toolchain and a minimal linux distro for dreamcast, which also took an eternity. But I had busybox! (gasp)
24 Jun 2009, 2:11 pm
I mean tweak in the sense of customisation, not crazily compiling all my OS from source, son that isn't tweaking, that is giving birth (and just as painful on a 386 probably
)haha, I guess I cant argue with that one at all
Nothing was quite like that experience, after that I built a cross compilation toolchain and a minimal linux distro for dreamcast, which also took an eternity. But I had busybox! (gasp)
Tried to install Gentoo to a 486 recently, I laugh now but...
Also: Dreamcast user?
YOU ARE A LEGEND
04 Jul 2009, 4:01 am
I used Gentoo for a while (a couple of years ago). I loved it, and only stopped using it because my hard-drive died and I didn't want to go throug the considerable pain of getting it installed again the way I liked it. I think building apps from source appeals to our aspie tendancies! 
Especially if you like to keep up to date with all the latest and greatest releases. These days I use Ubuntu just because it's easy and generally works. Though day-to-day I now have a Mac so have somewhat defected from the Linux crowed!
