On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:14:08AM -0800, Ross Dmochowski wrote:
> There is always Gentoo ;-)
> http://gentoo.berkeley.edu
>
> Free, supported on many more platforms (Alpha,PPC,x86,Sparc), is
> actively maintained, and for many operations, much faster (i see 30-40%
> speed improvements on my P4), and sports the latest KDE (kde-3.1.5), mozilla
> (1.6) et alii.
>
> Binaries distros have MANY shortcomings, leaving you to have to grab
> source RPMs anyway. (not linked w/ right libraries, et alii)
>
> Why not start out with source, so you know what is you are running?
Be serious; typing "make" doesn't give you any more idea what you're
running than typing "rpm -i". As for "supported on more platforms", every
experience I've had with an operating system on any alternate hardware
platform has been that it doesn't work--especially with open-source
operating systems.
-- Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069) College of Letters & Science 249 Campbell Hall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: For information about Micronet, including subscribing to or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: <http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>.Received on Wed Feb 4 13:11:12 2004
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