[ILUG] Which Distro ?

[Gareth Eason]

	If you're trying gentoo - have a look at 
http://nexus.signal2noise.co.uk/~eason/tmp/gentoo_install.html
	It's a stage 1 install right from start to finish, including the times 
it took me. Should be a LOT faster on your hardware.

	I found the documentation for the initial install fairly unhelpful (and 
sometimes wilfully obstructive) - though I think they have improved even 
in the few months between my install and now :-) Thankfully I had some 
helpful gentoo heads in ILUG to help me.

	I've set up a couple of gentoo boxen now and find them most 
satisfactory in their role as headless servers in a non / 
semi-production environment.

	If you want X, games, office applications, etc. I would suggest not 
using gentoo as a huge quantity of time and disk space will be spent 
compiling - both for the initial installation and for later updates and 
patches.

	I myself find RedHat most satisfactory for my desktop machines and 
workstations (and servers) - and FC2 is a huge leap over RedHat9. 
Installing apt-for-rpm means you can use the apt package management 
toolset of debian to manage your redhat RPMs, which is a huge timesaver. 
But as the debating will no doubt demonstrate to you - a Linux distro 
choice is very much a matter of personal choice (and a little bit of 
what happens to be closest at hand at the time :-)  )

	Hope this helps somewhat.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar




Robert Kiely wrote:
> FRLinux <frlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>How valuable is your time in terms of installation/compilation.
> 
> 
> Well I was thinking of doing a stage1 install of gentoo because I really
> like the idea of custom compiling for my particular machine and I want
> to learn as much as I can about linux, so, being honest compiliation
> time doesn't really matter to me. I was even thinking of trying to use
> distCC to get my other machine to help cut down compilation time
> (it runs OpenBSD 3.5). I would like to try ubuntu at some stage but for
> the moment I going to stay with one of the mainstream distros. (I plan
> to build a LFS system someday.) Anything else I should be considering ?
> 
> Robert Kiely
> 
> 
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