What Distro to use? ^^

[Dapper Dan]

Hm.... I see Portage is written in Bash and Python. That makes it doable even in my book . The Ebuilds remind me of the Slackbuilds, it may be interesting to compare the two. And CruxPorts4Slack is pretty interesting to. I'll look into that.

The only thing about CruxPorts4Slack is that you need to update the ports which is easy to do. I think the present version installs ports for Crux 2.2. You can go to the Crux website and get the latest ports of your choice for 2.3... rsync and httpup, and add them to /etc/ports.

[RobinVossen]

Ah, I asked about my idea on the Gentoo forums.
They'd love to work with me. (At least that Is what Id think )
Then again I tryed to download from that university.. download was really slow.. and thats not my Dail-Up connection for sure... (just kidding I have rather fast internet 10MB Down/Sec)
And I think I found out whats wrong with the Dutch Mirrors.
Looks like they did unpack the Isos into their dirs -.-'

Ah, well Ill just keep trying to download slackware to give it a try...


Cheers,
Robin

[Mel Thompson]

(Secretly I am learning line commands in the terminal and reading through an online Linux course, so, on a technical level, my actual newbieness could be question.)

However, I like to be called The Eternal Newbie because, even after working a few summers as a PC/Mac multiplatform QA guy, I still make it a point to stubbornly not-get-it, just to keep myself honest. No fair judging an operating system for new users when one is using all of one's skills already acquired in that system or distro.

Mint is almost as simple as the live CDs. Not only does it handle all the internet networking issues and partitioning issues, but it just doesn't make that any of the user's problem unless they want it to be.

As you can see, I'm totally biased in my judgment of a distro, since I judge it only by beginnerism ideas.

And then they have the only fully-functioning MPlayer on there, (and it even works
in the XFCE interface. (Like who ever recommends an XFCE interface for newbies?) But I'm on it right now because it's so fast and so sleek and has the most accessibly cool file system, brilliantly named "File System." (Here's my newbie logic: They named it File System so folks would know where to go to look for files. Hey, I like Nautilus, but long ago I was looking for my file system or my hard drive, and simply skipped over a box named for a sea creature - - don't get me wrong, I love Seamonkey.)

But now they really did pull together, through some miracle of the gods, a pre-loaded MPlayer that not only handles MP4, meaning no Quicktime is needed. (Shame on you Apple for being bad sports and not making Quicktime for Linux.) And that same player will handle internet radio streams if you choose the Windows Media stream. That means no need for any Windows anything. (Bill, as always, gods love you, but tell your folks to get a religion or a philosophy or something.)

So, it's MINT, XFCE. (Plus, if you're not a newbie, you can feel all non-newbie by being in XFCE. They played off the fact that we had gotten so convoluted that the idea of an obvious interface seemed like mystic voodoo, hence XFCE.)

Anyway, most all the multimedia I need, plus Open Office, per usual, which I'm liking more all the time. (But do download it fast, since rumors keep flying that Bill and Steve don't dig Mint because it actually works and might make ordinary people like Linux, which means they could come under legal attack for doing the obvious and sensible thing, which, given our culture, by definition, must be illegal.

[budman7]

I was going to recommend Sabayon as I saw that they had an option to do a "core-install".
I thought this would be similar to a Stage3 Gentoo installation.
It installed 3 GB of software, not very "core" if you ask me.
There was a "fluxbox-geeky" install, that said that it was pretty much empty.
After unchecking everything in the "Details", I still got over 5 GB of software, on a minimal install.
So much for that recommendation.

[RobinVossen]

Mint is not what I am looking for.
Since its Bloated in my eyes Thanks anyhow.
And Budman, thanks for Sabayon. But well.. I guess you know what I am going to say... BLOATED

I made up my mind. Its going to be a Gentoo (Its just the only one I like..) install.
That will be done by a pre-made BashScript.
The worse it can do then Is messup my Harddrives.
The BashScript is already writen and tested by somebody else so that should just be fine.
Thanks all anyhow.
And in the meanwhile ill start on developing Portage using Gentoos Ebuilds with Gentoos Emerge for Slackware... I guess I can Fetch a small team for that. The Project will be on LOW-Profile since I am WAY to busy.. (I got like 5 jobs.. and a Girlfriend and a Study and some Projects Id like to do..)

Thanks all.
Cheers,
Robin (Attempting to Reinstall Gentoo AGAIN but on another way now on Wednesday)

[techieMoe]

Seeing as how a decision has been made (and threads like these tend to attract spam and "me too!" posts) I'm going to call this solved and close it. Good luck RobinVossen on your Gentoo excursions.