Which Distro? 2008 - Page 4

01-20-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremi

what the hell are you talking about? slapcat is for LDAP and has nothing to do with slackware or package management. to correct you, slackware uses slackbuilds.

do you even understand the difference between binary distributions and source distributions?

I never really used slackware to be honest. But I heard once of the feature of slap-cat. And I thought it was an package management system.

My bad

01-22-2008	#32 (permalink)
genesus Linux Engineer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Vancouver Posts: 1,366	Even if it were a package management system, that does not make it a source based system; Debian has package management and it is not source-based, in the same way neither is Slackware. __________________ Operating System: GNU Emacs Last edited by genesus; 01-22-2008 at 06:56 AM.. Reason: typo

01-22-2008	#33 (permalink)
MikeTbob Trusted Penguin Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panther City, Tx Posts: 4,110	Gentoo for me, obviously I like to tinker/break things a lot! __________________ I do not respond to private messages asking for help. Please keep it on the forums only.

01-22-2008	#34 (permalink)
Tharkun Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1	Deb based for me

02-04-2008	#35 (permalink)
Artesia Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Southern California Posts: 83	Like so many other newbies, I'm using Ubuntu (Gutsy). I like it a lot but I'm certainly open to trying other distros in the future.

02-04-2008	#36 (permalink)
bigtomrodney /etc/init.d/moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sunny South-East of Ireland Posts: 6,038	I've played around a good bit, and still do. However I like to keep my 'production' machine running relatively stable software with good hardware support. Also having large full featured repositories so I don't have to start patching in source builds mean that my main system is easier to support/upgrade. For the last few months I have been running Ubuntu on both my notebook and my main rig. I had mostly run SUSE before that and whatever took my interest on my notebook but I found that SUSE wasn't getting any lighter, repos weren't enough for me and the hardware support was decreasing. Philosophy aside, I do need to have a system that works. I'm willing to work to do that but not if it means every upgrade means going back to the drawing board....so Ubuntu for the moment for me. __________________ Registered Linux user #378740 New members read here / Forum Rules #linuxforums on irc.freenode.net

05-18-2008	#37 (permalink)
geniuz Just Joined! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Netherlands, Europe Posts: 68	I didn't knew Gentoo was source-based, they have emerge right o_O ?? Aww well...learning linux by the minute around here :P

05-18-2008	#38 (permalink)
SagaciousKJB Linux Newbie Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Yakima, WA Posts: 157	I'm really liking Debian based distributions. I'm using Kubuntu out of pure convenience and because their packages are relatively up-to-date as compared with the standard Debian Etch. So far though I haven't really tried any source-based distros except LFS, and for some reason I really dislike most of the RPM based ones mentioned. Though I couldn't say why.

05-25-2008	#39 (permalink)
lam@lff Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Washington DC USA Posts: 5	I use FC on the Tower at home and Xandros on the laptop. I voted 'other' cause my usage is about 50/50.

05-28-2008	#40 (permalink)
danbuter Linux Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 108	I used OpenSUSE for a few months early this year. Then switched back to Ubuntu Hardy beta/final. __________________ Dan

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