tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10953736.post113791652972987738..comments2023-08-26T03:56:42.607-04:00Comments on The metamorphosis of a Hacker: Grow up FedoraSridhar Iyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748449920523042841noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10953736.post-1137976715459985802006-01-22T19:38:00.000-05:002006-01-22T19:38:00.000-05:00Calling Ubuntu overweight is wrong. It just does a...Calling Ubuntu overweight is wrong. It just does a minimal 1 cd install and gives u the freedom to pull anything from the network using apt. And with 1 GB ram I definitely can pamper myself :P<BR/><BR/>Gentoo was a viable option. Ubuntu was chosen just because I got the CD first and debian did not seem annoying. <BR/><BR/>Slackware still carries the distinction of being the *original* distro, but the live cd I used once did not excite me at all. BTW I read your blog... flubox looks great. Does it adds the OSx dock thingy too??Sridhar Iyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748449920523042841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10953736.post-1137975653609489692006-01-22T19:20:00.000-05:002006-01-22T19:20:00.000-05:00Toss Fedora. And Debian. And Ubuntu. All of the...Toss Fedora. And Debian. And Ubuntu. All of these have gotten far too heavyweight by indeed trying to please too many people.<BR/><BR/>Try slackware http://slackware.com , arch linux (not to be confused with arc linux) http://archlinux.org or gentoo http://gentoo.com. Slackware, as we all know, is the classic "bare-bones" distro. It gives you everything you need, a lot of what you want, and virtually nothing you don't want. You can quickly set up a basic functional system and worry about the bells and whistles later. It does not impose a packaging system; the default slackware packaging system is used to maintain the OS Distro, but can be extended to manage your self-built packages and does not try to please everyone by installing what you'll never use. Cons: must manually configure, which is a hassle but in the long run is a good thing; lack of a reliable package repository--the only truly reliable packages are the official distro tree. Like RPMs, you can't trust 3rd party sources. This forces you to compile much of your applications from source, which can be very time consuming.<BR/><BR/>Arch Linux is similar to Slackware in it's simplicity but has two major advantages. First, it has a much broader official package tree and second, it is optimized for i686 (all modern x86's), so you can install the binaries without worrying about performance penalty. Updates are also much more frequent.<BR/><BR/>Gentoo is on the far end of the performance/convienience specturm. As we all know, gentoo forces you to compile EVERYTHING from source, but makes it easy by automating the entire process; something that can't be said about any other linux distro (unless you trust to rpm source distros, but then it isn't the entire system). The only other place you'll find this functionality is in BSD. But, compiles still take time, even if you don't have to sit in front of the keyboard when the computer's doing it. In addition, unlike giving you a straightfoward installation program like nearly every other distro, Gentoo does not include a setup program and expects you to do the entire procedure by hand.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.com