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Linux Desktop Distro Shootout
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TiredOfWaiting
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I've never even heard of CentOS...
What happened to Gentoo?
What happened to Gentoo?
CentOS is pretty good, but it is based on RedHat, which I personally hate.
Gentoo is a bit too "advanced" to be considered with the likes of Ubuntu and openSUSE.
Gentoo is a racist OS
Gentoo is for people who have 24 hours to do an install of their OS.
I can install Gentoo in just under an hour, but then again I am exceptionally leet
TiredOfWaiting
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I can install Gentoo in just under an hour, but then again I am exceptionally leet
Gentoo is an OS made exclusively for people who refer to themselves as "l33t".
I can install Gentoo in just under an hour, but then again I am exceptionally leet
I thought the point of running Gentoo was to complile everything for you pc during the install to make it as tight and light as possible. How can you compile everything in under an hour?
Gentoo is an OS made exclusively for people who refer to themselves as "l33t".
Hence why I use it.
w1z4rd said:
By having a beast of a machine
Nah, one can get the base system up and running (i.e. no KDE/GNOME) in under an hour. I built it on my firewall a few weeks back and had it running as a basic server in around an hour. Obviously recompiling the kernel and emerging various other packages will take longer, however getting to the basic system which can be booted into and used takes just under an hour if you know what you're doing
I'm tempted to try a race between Gentoo and Windows XP to see which one I can install faster. Maybe I will take turns installing each on a virtual machine and time it
chiskop
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Gentoo is a racist OS
It's named after the gentoo penguin - though where the penguin got its name, I don't know.
I can install Gentoo in just under an hour, but then again I am exceptionally leet
My last ubuntu install took < 10 minutes. How l33t is that?
Word doesn't come with windows. Apart from browsing there is not much you can do with a fresh windows install, except install all the other stuff you need. I've never used Gentoo (my time is precious
) - but I'm pretty sure that a fresh gentoo install has far more than a fresh windows installation.It's named after the gentoo penguin - though where the penguin got its name, I don't know.
My last ubuntu install took < 10 minutes. How l33t is that?
Word doesn't come with windows. Apart from browsing there is not much you can do with a fresh windows install, except install all the other stuff you need. I've never used Gentoo (my time is precious
When I wrote word.. I had wordpad in my mind :> sry... should have completed the word
CodeMaster
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As a linux noob, I did a Gentoo install a couple of years ago... and it ONLY took... a whole weekend
chiskop
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Minesweeper?
As a linux noob, I did a Gentoo install a couple of years ago... and it ONLY took... a whole weekend
My first Gentoo install (3 years ago) took me an entire week to get to where I wanted it to be, but that also had a lot to do with the fact that I was compiling KDE on an AMD Duron 800 with 256mb RAM (which, as you can imagine, took 3 days)
I think once one has gotten the hang of installing Gentoo (by doing it a few times), it gets a lot easier and a lot quicker as you know what you are doing and what you need.
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This review is quite shocking terrible, I do not think this reviewer knows anything to be quite honest.
First thing is that he states Ubuntu 8.4, it is 8.04. Second thing if you look at the date of the article Ubuntu 8.04 is not considered a Beta release anymore. S
Third thing (which I noticed a reader pointed out), he was comparing chalk and cheese. In other words a fully released distro to a few others which are still beta.
Fourth thing since when is Mepis linux derived from Mandrivia? It is based on Debian and Ubuntu linux. No I am quite shocked at this review, it means as much as toilet paper.
First thing is that he states Ubuntu 8.4, it is 8.04. Second thing if you look at the date of the article Ubuntu 8.04 is not considered a Beta release anymore. S
Third thing (which I noticed a reader pointed out), he was comparing chalk and cheese. In other words a fully released distro to a few others which are still beta.
Fourth thing since when is Mepis linux derived from Mandrivia? It is based on Debian and Ubuntu linux. No I am quite shocked at this review, it means as much as toilet paper.
When I wrote word.. I had wordpad in my mind :> sry... should have completed the word
the question would be how long it takes to compile a desktop environment. I suspect xfce and the relevant components should be relatively quick. or something like fluxbox.
He did originally refer to Ubuntu as "8.04", however it really is semantics; Ubuntu's version-naming system doesn't require it to be "8.04 or else you are wrong", and I think calling it 8.4 when referencing it in an article that has already mentioned the full name and version isn't really a crime. 8.4 - 2008, 4th month, either way it doesn't make a huge difference.
However, stating Mepis is derived from Mandriva is just retarded. Mepis was created as an alternative to Mandriva (as well as SuSE and RedHat), the only similarity with the two distributions being the first letter of their names.