debian

my previous post... featured installing portage. as much fun as that was, i had to switch to debian. and i can't even stop saying such nice things about debian! bloat ware? forget it! just install the software that you need.

call it somewhere in between fedora core and gentoo--- you've got thousands of apps ready with a simple apt-get install and viola! downloads it and dependencies and installs it!

one of the few things i hated over redhats was that you had to search for dependencies yourself. that can be a challenge sometimes.

sure, downloading sources and compiling them can be fun but sometimes faster uptime is better than going through all the motions (especially when its not mission critic to have the system performance-tuned!

so is debian excellent? yes! :)