Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 21:36 -0400, Logan Tygart wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 20:59 -0400, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>> On 7/23/06, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller <robin@roblimo.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
> <snip>
>> Maybe you have out grown the prepackaged distros. You might be a "power
>> user" or possibly "man-bear-pig".[1] You might consider another distro
>> and give it a whirl. I use Debian.[2] It has always worked for me and
>> its price has yet to vary, in the seven years I've used it. There are
>> folk who subscribe to Gentoo,[3] the price is the same as Debian's and I
>> personally gave it a whirl, but I don't have patience to wait for that
>> nonsense to compile. If I had that amount of time on my hands, I'd do
>> it the old school way.[4]
>>
>> The Logan
>>
>> 1. http://www.allyourbase-arebelongto.us/node/109
>> 2. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>> 3. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
>> 4. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
>
> Oh yeah, with Debian, security updates are the same price as the distro.
>
> If you delight in SuSE's graphical display, as much as this makes my
> Debian core recoil in horror, you might try Ubuntu. Ubuntu is an
> ancient African word meaning, "I can't configure Debian." But it
> configures itself, automagically. Minimal or no RTFMing required.
>
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