[Gllug] Recommended distro
Adrian McMenamin
adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sun Dec 12 19:39:37 UTC 2004
On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 15:25, Nelson Menezes wrote:
>
> So, to sum it up, I was thinking maybe Debian or Gentoo.
> I've never tried either and the respective websites both
> say "this is the best distro on all universes", so I
> thought I'd get your opinions. Do both distros usually
> build from source? (I'd like that). Or does some other
> distro have the same level of popularity? (I don't want to
> be in a too-small niche.)
Generally speaking that is how Gentoo works. My only experience with Gentoo
was a poor one, but it was on what must be regarded these days as
obscure/obsolete (sparc32) hardware. I certainly learnt not to go near it
with a box with limited diskspace.
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