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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First, let me state that I really like FreeBSD and am looking forward to trying out 5.0. That said, I'd like to point out that Gentoo is a desktop distribution an on the desktop, Linux kicks FreeBSD's ass. First, the preemptible kernel makes for a much more responsive system. Second, it has much better sound support via ALSA. Third, it has XFS. While FreeBSD's softupdates-enabled UFS is nice, XFS is ultimately faster and has a bunch of useful tools and features (node monitoring, recovery/backup tools, file attributes, ACLs) that FreeBSD doesn't. With Linux 2.6, Linux will still probably maintain that lead. I've been using the devel kernels now and then, and the latest versions kick ass. They are nowhere near as rock-solid as they should be. I've wiped out my filesystem after trying to burn a bad CDR. WinXP and Linux 2.4 both merely froze when I tried to burn the same CDR. But using it, you can see signs of genius here and there.