[GRLUG] openSuSE 10.1 & Freespire Concept

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I use Arch Linux. That, of course, is one that no one has talked about 
yet. That's probably because it's basically Gentoo without the 
compiling. It's not exactly a super user friendly version of linux. You 
are supposed to install it via a minimal install and then use it's 
custom package tool (pacman) to get everything you need. Most all of the 
display managers are available (KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, etc).

And actually, you only get away from compiling if you want things that 
are in the official package tree. Theres a user package tree that people 
can add to that basically encapsulates a source tgz with a description 
of how to compile it in arch (sort of like what gentoo does). I think 
Arch is a good compromise between gentoo and the more friendly versions 
of linux. You still need quite a bit of linux knowledge to use it 
because it makes few attempts to hold your hand but it's very 
configurable, fast,  and not as annoying as gentoo (having to compile 
absolutely everything gets old fast.)

If you get the chance I'd recommend trying something like Arch or 
gentoo, at least for education's sake. ;-) It really teaches you to 
figure out where configuration files are kept and how to hand edit them. 
That comes in handy for running servers where the general rule is 'thou 
shalt not run KDE or Gnome.'

Shawn McCuan wrote:
> What is it that you didn't like about Linspire? (other than the UI -
> keep in mind it is just KDE...so, the theme can be changed....lol)
>
> IMHO, I think that Xandros is really attempting to be a Windows 2000
> clone...so, no go for me there...and its just plain slow.
>
> I use openSuse as my primary distro :) And I frequently "toy" with
> Gentoo...I can do stage3 installations w/o a problem, but, I still cant
> quite get a stage1or stage2 to work...lol...
>
>
> Jordan Hudson wrote:
>   
>> linspire was worse than Xandros, so I probably wont use freespire,
>> they just look to windows-esque for me. Xandros was the biggest pain ever.
>>
>> On 5/15/06, *Shawn McCuan * <metiosarius at linspirenetwork.com
>> <mailto:metiosarius at linspirenetwork.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey,
>>
>>     I was just wondering what you guys have thought of the recent Suse
>>     Linux
>>     10.1 release (which I really like - I have been a long time SuSE
>>     user -
>>     Yast is awesome...even though SuSE uses *cough*rpm*cough* instead
>>     of the
>>     superior *deb package management system) (http://www.opensuse.org)
>>
>>     I am a little irritated that SuSE dropped support for RaLink WLAN
>>     cards
>>     though...even though I have found a way to get it working by
>>     installing
>>     the manufacturers drivers...They are supposed to be releasing an
>>     "official" patch sometime in the future for this...
>>
>>     Also, what do you guys think about the Freespire project?
>>     ( http://www.freespire.org)
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>
>>     Shawn McCuan
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