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Can anyone help me find a good distro ?
H_TeXMeX_H:
Damn, I've been looking all damn day, and not a one good distro :( Read tons of reviews, went through at least half the distros on Distrowatch ... fuck. I must say, I'm quite disappointed in the state of most Linux distros. I want a distro that is easy to install, configure, and use. I want it at least i586 or i686 optimized. I do NOT want any distro that has a non-free or limited-free marketing sheme ... some examples would be Mandriva, Suse, etc. I don't want a choice between getting a 'limited' free version of Linux and a pay 'full' version (Mandriva and Suse). Fedora's marketing scheme is acceptable, because there are no restrictions ... only problem is it's optimized for i386 ... I feel this may be sapping some power from me. If Fedora had i686 optimized packages, I would stay with it. Really, it looks like I'm gonna stay with it either way.
I also do not want a distro that is on its way out or has very few devs ... most are doomed to fail or have problems ... take CCux for example ... I thought it would be great, but guess what ? The .iso is 702 MB ... and all of my CDs can only hold 700 MB ... fuck !!!
worker201:
Here's my advice: suffer. But then in your spare time, make a 686 distro yourself. I bet it wouldn't be hard to put one together.
piratePenguin:
I'm using rPath Linux (rPL).
I would use Foresight, but does an OS really need to ship (the non-free) Google Earth?
rPL is quite old, but I bloody well like it. There's nothing wrong with GNOME 2.12! (KDE's also installed, which I like - for K3B, amaroK, kate and some other handy apps)
As for optimisations, I've no idea how rPL works, but I don't think it's a big deal.
Main reason I'm using rPL is for it's package management (conary, which I've mentioned here many a time) of course. If you're not interested in learning about it you probably won't like using rPL - there's no graphical frontend, and everything you want mightn't be packaged (in one of the default repo's anyhow).
If you can figure it out, then you might be able to help me put together my OS ;) (feel free to bloat up the wiki in the mean time)
Time to package GAIM 2.0b4...
WMD:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---I also do not want a distro that is on its way out or has very few devs ... most are doomed to fail or have problems ... take CCux for example ... I thought it would be great, but guess what ? The .iso is 702 MB ... and all of my CDs can only hold 700 MB ... fuck !!!
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All my CD-Rs take 703MB. Are yours really 700?
And seriously, give Gentoo a try if you are having this hard a time finding something. How fast is your computer? You could probably do it in one day if it's modern.
worker201:
btw, they do make 800MB cds
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