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 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:08:18 up 2 days, 12:14, 3 users, load average: 0.83,
