[wellylug] Distro of choice

[Harry Nicholls]

Debian sounds like it would be worth a go. I run Debian Unstable, and
with the odd exception, it doesn't live up to it's name, being pretty
solid for my use at least. Apt makes everything so much easier, and
the range of architectures it runs on is also nice, being a PPC user
myself. With a low-end system it's great as you can handpick what goes
in very easily, keeping the system trim. The range of software is also
huge - I think there's over ten thousand packages in Unstable. The new
Debian Installer simplifies the installation process with hardware
detection (not that it was as hard as everyone makes out before) so go
check it out. :)


On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:31:14 -0400, Bill Christiansen
<bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> Darryl Hamilton wrote:
> 
> > Nick Jensen wrote:
> >
> >> I've notice during my lurking that we seem to have some die-hard
> >> Debian fans here, and some Gentoo fans as well. Mandrake certainly
> >> sounds appealing - if a bit too much like what I already have. And I
> >> don't think I'm ready for Slackware just yet!
> >> So tell me - what do you recommend?
> >
> >
> > I'm going to recommend Slackware anyway, even though you don't believe
> > you're ready for it.
> >
> > Can I just ask why? Is it the lack of a decent built in package
> > management system, or something else?
> >
> > Slackware DOES has a package management system (you can all stop
> > laughing now), but it's not as comprehensive as apt-get or rpm.
> > However, there are a number of 3rd party utils that you can install
> > that emulate both pretty well, with automated downloading and
> > installing, plus dependancy checking etc
> >
> > Personally I use swaret (swaret.org), but there are quite a few others
> > (I'll make up a list if you want to know more).
> >
> > d.
> >
> >
> Don't forget to give the small ones a look in too - Vector linux is a
> slackware based distro with some of the fat trimmed and a more friendly
> install.
> 
> I currently use Onebase linux which is not based on any other distro but
> is also lean and performs well on lower spec machines (although it's
> i686 so needs at least a p2).
> 
> 
> 
> 
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