Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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a little note here:
Linux seems to run fast only on UltraSPARC (64-bit) workstations. The older 32-bit Linux variant is slow because they just couldn't get the MMU right. I installed SuSE on a friends Ultra 1 Creator and it was fast, but when I installed linux on my SPARCstation 2, it was sllooow... After I installed NetBSD 1.5, it got faster. So if you plan to install something on a sparc 32-bit, install NetBSD 1.5 or Solaris 1.4 (where wouild you find that?)...