Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 3rd Nov 2004 07:07 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y To paraphrase one of the best "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes, "Best of Both Worlds", both Arch Linux and Slackware represent the best of all the OS worlds: the power of traditional Unix, the elegance of BSD and the ease of mind of Mac OS X. This is an article outlining the differences between --what I believe-- are the two best Linux distros around today. Mind you though, "best" doesn't always mean "easy".
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re: compiling
by Dewd on Wed 3rd Nov 2004 09:29 UTC

From my part, I like compiling on Debian or Debian based distros. Ubuntu allows me to compile my apps just fine. Most of the time things go into /usr/local anyway. Maybe using the --prefix config could help a bit too. But with Debian we have the choice of compiling only what we want. That's great. :-)