[plug] Re: Frugalware

[Shannon Carver]

I'm amazed.  I know exactly what you mean by formatting week by week/month
by month, but I mainly did this when I was running Windows as my primary OS
(purely for stability/speed reasons)!!  My voyages through linux
distributions have been far less than your amazing list though (its like you
copied it straight off distrowatch.com!), but I share the same sentiment for
many of the distributions that we've both used.

 

I've gone Redhat -> Slackware -> Debian -> Gentoo over the course of about
3-4 years, and use Ubuntu on my laptop.

As well as that I've used Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora, and a few others, and
wouldn't recommend them to anyone!

 

Debian for server work/stability

Debian/OpenBSD for routers/gateways/firewalls

Ubuntu for laptop (You're spot on, everything just works, Power management,
screen/resolution & hardware detection, removable device management..
PERFECT!)

Gentoo for my desktops.  I've not tried Crux or anything, but its definitely
faster than the other distributions I've ran on this computer.  I has Debian
on my desktop for a long time and the speed difference is fantastic.

 

Live CD's definitely have their place in testing/debugging or just short
term solutions (great for temporary routers/firewalls)

 

Your message was definitely an interesting read, by the way!

 

Regards

 

Shannon

 

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
Of Benjamin Woods
Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2006 1:11 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: [plug] Re: Frugalware

 

I really think i should have given that email a better subject... oops!

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From: Benjamin Woods
woodsb02 at gmail.com
Registered Linux User #372573 

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