Re: Is there a better distribution than Suse?

From: mjt (mjtobler_at_removethis_mail.ru)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:32:17 GMT

Chris Carlen wrote:

> I also looked at Gentoo, which seems to require everything to be hand
> configured.
>
> I appreciate that these hand-configured distros will probably be very
> little trouble once set up, but I just don't know if I want to go in
> that "manual" direction again.

[snipped]

> There is one final issue:  I use a lot of commercial software on my 
> Linux, like Mathematica, MatLab, Eagle, and VMware.  So I also am 
> hesitant to attempt to use one of the distros like Lycorix, or Xandros,
> or whatever they are these days.  

... i was gonna suggest Xandros or Lycoris or Gentoo. i have them
all working with VMWARE ...

with gentoo, you CAN go the binary route, but that isnt
the point of gentoo
. 

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