ON TOPIC: comparative distros (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:49:18AM +1200, cr wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so,
but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more
problems adding packages when I had to.

I just got it because it had an easy install and installed decent video
drivers. For older machines Debian's fine but for my game machine I just
don't want the hassle of configuring every little thing by hand. It's the
one machine I want to just run as I use it to relax. :)

(Or has Mepis gone to the Ubuntu repository now, like
Libranet and some other distros did?)

Not sure. Ubuntu's repositories are one of the reasons I don't like
it. If Mepis went that way I'd be a sad panda.

HEY!!!!

Since this thread has drifted back to Linux distros and hence is almost On
Topic for this list, how about labelling it clearly "ON TOPIC" so we can tell
it apart from all the other hundreds of recent posts??

;-)

cr


I have debian on most of my machines here. I'm currently running Ubuntu
on my fastest machine because X keeps crashing in Debian (yes, I've
reported the bug). Except for that one detail, Debian works just fine.
ON Ubuntu, though, I just get boxes instead of characters in xemacs.

-- hendrik


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