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! :)

of cows and penguins

gentoo is a great linux distro!

i love portage! very excellent tool. my major complaint? i've been compiling and recompiling everything--- (which was the whole idea anyway) from source so that the machine would be running at optimum condition. unfortunately i forget that it takes eons to do such an insane endeavour!

every tried to compile X11? or gnome? not a pretty sight! you get bored to death! even when the tube's on line or having a ton of divx cartoons/movies playing on another machine.

so i trashed the system... after being able to boot to gentoo and X. i was going to compile gnome... but it kept failing on orbit2. so after trying it out a bit, i grabbed my debian installers and installed it over gentoo.

so i'm aboard debian now. my second debian machine. apt-get is way better than rpms. y? cuz it searches and downloads dependencies! :) redhat/mandrake should learn from that. and its command line... so sometimes there is freedom in it.

now if only i remember how to set up that firewall and dns... lol!

*slips out to do the dirty work*

-c