[TriLUG] Distro suggestions

[Jim Ray]

With a 600 MHz laptop, I did a 1 hour install on Ubuntu including all
patches.  I'd like to see da boys in Redmond beat that.

Regards,

Jim

Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
http://www.Neuse.Net

Neuse River Networks 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of
> Lee Fickenscher
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:22 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Distro suggestions
> 
> On Dec 19, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Magnus wrote:
> 
> > Jason S. Evans wrote:
> >
> >>   I'm looking to try out a new Linux distro, and I'm looking for
> >> suggestions.  I've recently tried OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora Core,
> >> Damn Small, and Debian.  So, what should I try next?
> >
> >
> > Try something that isn't Linux at all.  Perhaps OpenBSD?
> >
> > If you have a few weeks to spare to come up with a very barebones
> > useable system, Gentoo is worth a try.
> 
> LOL, quit it! A barebones Gentoo install can be done in a day. I used
> to do a full gnome install in a weekend and that was before they had
> GRP. Now, I did have a fairly current system, an athlon that was a
> year or so old,  but if you aren't trying to install on a 386 it
> shouldn't take more than a weekend for a full install.
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