[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[Jim Tuttle]

trilug-request at trilug.org wrote:
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:08:04 -0400
From: jason at monsterjam.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
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well, like I said, you dont have to install X, you dont have to install
gnome or kde or
anything else you dont want. Personally, I dont see what everyones
hang-up is with "install
time". I cant say that Ive installed gentoo on a P75, but yes, it will
take quite a while to
compile your kernel and whatever else you want to install. So I set up a
screen session to
the box, emerge a few packages at once, and go do something else for a
few hours. or let it
run overnight. Sure it might take a weekend to ge a server installed.
Its not like I have to
sit there any watch it compile..  ;)

in my opinion, the up-front time to install a gentoo system ONCE outweighs
having to reinstall <your binary distro version here> as they go through
their release cycles
over the years.

Jason


That's not true.  I've used Ubuntu since version 4.10 released in late
2004.  I've never reinstalled my desktop.  I always apt-get the latest
release.  So far I've been through 5 releases and am waiting for the
next one to come out of beta.

Jim

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