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Can somebody recommend a totally bleeding edge distro aside foresight, edgy eft? I just love to get the latest and unstable things out there. Or any way to make Gentoo ...
  1. 10-08-2006 #1
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    Bleeding edge distros

    Can somebody recommend a totally bleeding edge distro aside foresight, edgy eft? I just love to get the latest and unstable things out there.

    Or any way to make Gentoo more cutting edge?
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    Personally I enjoy very much Debian Unstable.
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    I find because Ubuntu has such a huge community there is a great availability of packages available. I know you mentioned trying Edgy, but if you use all of the repositories enabled with Automatix you should get a lot of packages. I generally have the latest amarok within a day or two of it being released.
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    If you want a bleeding edge Gentoo, then read this article from the Gentoo handbook.
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    ... or Mandriva Cooker. Personally I don't like bleeding edge stuff, but more power to you if you do.
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    I have never tried Mandriva, but I'll give it a shot soon. I think I ask too much, when I installed gtkpod on Edgy Eft I didn't like it beacuse it was 0.99.4 and not 0.99.8 . I always recompile my kernel to 2.6.18 although I don't know why . I'll try your suggestion daark.child
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    you can always use LFS and just download the bleeding edge packages off sourceforge et al.
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    Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
    Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?
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    Arch is pretty bleeding edge from what I've seen.
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    Installed Arch before but my network doesn't work with the default kernel, so I need to go to my Gentoo installation, compile a kernel for Arch and boot it, not in the mood right now ....
    Are there lots of diference between vanilla kernel and Arch's kernel? Can I get Arch sources without using pacman?
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    Arch uses vanilla sources, I think. If it doesn't, it certainly doesn't mind me using them; I've been using a custom kernel from kernel.org for a good month. Arch has a nice system called ABS that allows you to compile parts of your system from source.
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