[Lilux-help] Distro is not as important as we all think

[Georges Toth]

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excuse me?
i _fully_ disagree with your opinion.
a distro is _VERY_ important.
not every distro is the same, not every distro feels the same or has the same 
"features".
i've been using over the years, all sorts of distros, and the one and only i 
really feel comfortable with right now, is gentoo.
why? because it's source based, because it has IMO, the best package manager 
and system of them all, because _"I"_ have the freedom to do whatever i want, 
to tweak whatever i want without making my system comlain about everything or 
making it unstable, because there's no need for "upgrading" to a new version 
every x-months, because there are updates availble, and those you are looking 
for, and for many other reasons....

i do think, that it's important what distro you use, and that you think well 
before choosing.
and, that not every distro is suitable for every user.

but that's just my opinion...


On Monday 28 June 2004 15:05, Patrick Kaell wrote:
> The distro is not as important as we all think. Much more important are
> the applications and the whole environment. For example, I recreate on
> every Un*x platform I work my favorite environment (shell profile, shell
> aliases, window manager settings, etc). I even compile the GNU ls
> (because of the colours) on every *BSD and commercial Unix I use.
>
> In fact I use Yellow Dog Linux and MacOS X (also a real Unix) as a dual
> boot solution on my iBook (Slackware is x86 only), Solaris 8 on my
> SparcStation 5 and use RedHat and AIX at work. And guess what? They all
> look and *feel* the same. I have installed the same tools, window
> manager, applications, have the same settings and so on. I don't use the
> distro's defaults.
>
> My opinion: It may be difficult to find your optimal distro, but finding
> your optimal editor or script language is far more important. As long as
> you are *using* your computer instead of tweaking, upgrading and
> installing all the time, the distro is not important at all.
>
> You have extremely many choices: the base OS (*BSD, Linux), the distro,
> the shell (bash, tcsh, ksh, zsh, ...), the editor (vi, emacs), the vi
> derivative (nvi, vim, elvis, ...), the emacs implementation (GNU Emacs,
> uemacs, xemacs, jed, ...), the graphical editor (nedit, scite, gedit,
> bluefish, xvi, ...), the windowmanager (twm, fvwm, olvwm, icewm,
> windowmaker, afterstep, ion, wm2, blackbox, fluxbox, openbox, ...), the
> desktop environment (CDE, KDE, Gnome, xfce, ...) and so on.
>
> For instance, here is a good page comparing the window managers:
>
> http://xwinman.org
>
> Simply take the first distro you can get. Even if it is not the optimal
> one it will not be bad. You have to use Linux, read articles, try out
> many things before you find your optimal environment.
>
> By the way, here are my favorites:
>
> Shell:                   bash, (also like tcsh)
> Window Manager:          icewm, (also like window maker)
> File Manager (&Desktop): ROX http://rox.sourceforge.net , very speedy!
> Programming Language:    C
> Script Language:         bash, gawk
> Graphical Tools:         xv, xpaint, bitmap, gimp
> Vector Graphical Tool:   xfig
> Text Processing:         LaTeX (yes, still better than all the WYSIWYG)
> Text Editor:             nedit, (also like scite)
> vi derivative:           elvis
> WWW Browser:             mozilla, dillo (very speedy!!!)
> Mail Client:             mozilla
> Small Database:          grok
> Calendar:                plan
>
>
> Patrick Kaell
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regards,
Georges Toth
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