Fedora, Debian or Gentoo
Kelson Vibber
kelson at speed.net
Wed Nov 19 00:51:41 UTC 2003
WipeOut <wipe_out at onetel.com> wrote:
>Gentoo was not a choice for me because again there was a learning curve,
>and the idea of compiling packages from source does not sit well with
>me.. I am not really confident in my ability to build systems, like PHP
>for example with all its included libs and other command line options,
>from source and have them run reliably..
Actually, as I understand it, Gentoo takes care of all the dependency and
configuration issues for you. It's based on the *BSD ports system. Yes,
everything gets compiled on your computer, but you can install, say, all of
KDE with a single command like "emerge kde." Of course, it may take
several days to build! ;-)
Back on the subject of distro choice: I've been quite happy with Fedora on
the workstations I've installed it on so far (both at home and at work),
and we're planning on rolling out a new server in the next few
weeks. We've settled on Fedora Core as the OS.
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
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