Re:Stampede! (Score 1)

Not Commenting on this particular post in any way, Just It was easier, And I'm lazy. ;) I really giggle sometimes, with everyone getting defensive about whatever 'flavour' of the unices that they prefer, and of course, the flavor a given person uses, i.e. the one they got to know, and have learned how to work with, is ALWAYS 'The Best' distro. The way I look at things, I find that there are things that I find admirable about each and every distro of any flavor of unix. Wierd, But I like what I like. Personally, I use slakware. Why? Because for what I, in particular, am after it's the 'best' system. It's a given that anything that runs on a given flavor of unix can eventually be ported to all the others, and most likely will be, given your average geek's inclination to generally reinvent the wheel whenever possible. So in the end, There isnt even any real point in arguing over 'which one is the best' I avoid it because it makes many many people freak out and usually starts a big 'ol shitstorm whenever any geek percieves his favourite flavour's honor besmirched. While this can be highly entertaining reading, it gets tiresome eventually. I usually tell people to use whatever THEY are most comfortable with, seeing as that is what they really want, anyway. People, for some reason hate learning new things. There are those who plow redhat, and say it's the effete, idiot's linux, and those who plow slakware as 'akin to growing your own wheat to make a pizza' whereas I say, if you have a nionstandard application that no distro seems to really fit, Build your own. I do. That's the beautiful thing that is the true core of the whole open source community. Generally (Noone panic, this is merely an arbitrary starting point, I'm sure one could start off with any other given distro, seeing as the source is all avaliable anyway) I start off with the Slakware source, mainly because I've been using/programming/bastardizing computers since the days of pong and Commodore Vic 20's, and slakware was the first distro I happened across, there fore it was the first one I learned, and the one I feel 'at home' with. No other reason. But anyway, once you've got the source, off you go. This sounds like a load of hassle, but if you think about it, It's the only real way to get exactly what you need. Say, if you had 100 p100's in your complex that you wanted to convert over to linux, you could very easily build a distro that fits your particular needs, burn it to cd with a single boot floppy and walk around with it. Or use an nfs install disk from whatever your WAN uses for a server. The docs are all there, usually. ;) It's not as mountainus as it sounds either, certainly not by todays standards. My $360 home-baked celeron 500 can plow through code like it's going out of stile, and with that sort of power avaliable for such low price, it's idiocy itself to stick with ancient outmoded hardware for compilation. Especially seeing as one can very easily compile it with 386 optimization, ON that selfsame celeron, and transfer it over taking approx 5 mins for the whole process. Much easier than compiling on a 3 or even 486 (Obligatory wince at the mention of compiling on a 386) Anyway, Most likely, everyone here will say I'm some variety of idiot or another, So I'll sign off and allow them to do so....... Cheers, Arianth