On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 04:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Do, den 30.12.2004 schrieb Jorge Fábregas um 5:32:
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 10:19 am, Timothy Payne wrote:
- Since when have you been using Linux? Why Fedora in particular?
I am using Fedora because after a short time with SuSE in 1998 I switched to Red Hat Linux 5.2 (I still have that box) and used Red Hat since then. I simply like how Red Hat Linux / Fedora is structured internally. For my taste SuSE is too much Yast concentrated which means that using Yast you can't edit things manually. Deactivating Yast makes it difficult to find all the locations where customisation is needed. 1,5 year I had Debian Woody on my desktop system, but the stable Debian isn't something you want on a desktop. testing/unstable is like running Rawhide - the weekly headaches included - and working with the backports didn't make me lucky too. Debian stable is good for old and poor hardware, which runs for limited and specific purposes. At university I still remotely maintain a Debian system running as a print server and internal webserver for accounting data. Gentoo? I gave it a try - from stage 1 onwards.
I'm using gentoo as my main distro now. Migrated from FC2 2 months back.
Well, its a system for those type of people having a motor cycle which is 90% of time in the garage where they are dismounting things, repairing, tuning, what else doing with it.
I agree that it is a bit of a pain. Having to compile most of everything yourself and it's not suitable for a system with a slow CPU and low MEM. (like my P133 w/128MB Ram, which is why it's on FC3)
And I don't run the most powerful hardware to afford the compile times X.org or OpenOffice.org or a Gnome for instances needs.
There are binary pre-compiled versions for that in portage though. So it saves you a few CPU cycles.
I feel comfortable using gentoo because I don't have to worry about the 18 months Legacy Cycle. It's a word I'm learning to hate. I've Dl'ed Centos and Tao but not had the chance nor the hardware to play with it. (YET)
I feel comfortable using Red Hat / Fedora, think to know the system good enough, am able to use RPM on command line both as user as well with packaging (last not perfectly) and mainly am able to use the system - hardware and the Linux system - as the tool which it should be as a tool.
I'm a redhat/fc user since RH7 IIRC. It was a hit and miss thingy what with no hardware when I was in Uni. Only started serious work on Linux like 1+ year ago when my D600 Laptop came in the door.
Again, really, thanks for your time here on the list.
Being glad about your kind words. Sharing experience, knowledge, thoughts and even some times frustration is a fair part of the free
I'll drink to that.. Hang on.. it's alreay 2005 here. Greets from Asia.
You and all the others: I wish you a great year 2005!
Alexander