[plug] next distro?

[Craig Ringer]

Mungo TheB wrote:

> what I want is a quick install distro (for getting up and running) but 
> standard so I dont have to jump loops (dont mind tinkering&learning)
> and where everything is standard (can do a compile and not do loops to 
> get it workin) even though sometimes you have too :)

I find Fedora does the job very nicely for just that. FC1 anyway; FC2 
seems to be only half-baked from what I've heard, but half of that is a 
2.6 kernel bug on partition tables and a GNOME defaults change some 
people LOVE to hate.

The only things I've custom built on my FC1 systems are KDE3.2, 
Ghoscript CVS, LittleCMS, and Scribus CVS. Pretty incredible compared to 
my usual, where I begin to wonder why I don't dpkg --remove / rpm -e 
most of the OS and just rebuilt it _all_.

I found the Fedora GNOME quite usable for GNOME (sufficiently so that I 
actually used it for 3 months or so before trying KDE3.2, which in 
severly reconfigured form I'm still using). As prior to that I was a 
staunch "anything but either KDE _or_ GNOME" user, I think that's 
significant.

Of course, YYMV, and many seem to consider Debian Sarge a viable 
alternative. This seems much more reasonable to me than it did a while 
ago, as now it looks to have a chance of actually stabilising to release 
within a year ;-)

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Craig Ringer