[mdlug] Fwd: Fwd: Ubuntu vs. FedoraCore vs. SuSE

[God of Lemmings]

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> From: Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com>
> Date: May 13, 2007 12:25:58 PM EST
> To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Fwd: Ubuntu vs. FedoraCore vs. SuSE
> Reply-To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>
> On 5/13/07, God of Lemmings <god_of_lemmings at usol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Prepare for a rush of people saying which distro has been best for
>> them...
>
> Sometimes I think it's a Linux user's favorite pass-time.
>
>> Personally, I went Ubuntu -> Suse 10 -> Gentoo on AMD64,
>> The initial setup was a headache, but after that it has been pretty
>> nice.
>
> I do strongly recommend Gentoo to anybody with a powerful machine and
> the stamina to make it through the install process. A word of warning,
> though. Do *not* use the 2007.0 LiveCD install. Many users are
> reporting bugs. For myself, it wouldn't set up any partitions, but it
> did erase the old ones, immediately and without warning (as opposed to
> the normal "doesn't actually do anything until you commit"
> partitioning). I'm currently downloading Sabayon (a Gentoo derivative)
> to give that a try. And the old school Gentoo install (basically a CLI
> with a C compiler, and a whole lot of manual work) should still work
> fine. Once Gentoo is up and running, I find it to be the easiest
> distro to maintain.
>

Right. I'd also recommend never using the livecd to install,  even a 
2006 or 2005 one.
Instead use the minimal/install CD + package CD.

considering it was release

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