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On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, "John" <irgunii@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. I've |
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got ADD in the |
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> extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things 'UNIX' |
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(command line and |
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> such) is just too difficult for me. I can do some command line stuff but |
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nothing more than |
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> getting time from someplace to make my clock be correct, heh. |
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> I've been using SuSE/openSUSE now for all those 12 years but I'm |
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becoming somewhat |
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> disgruntled with the direction I feel it's going (don't ask, it'll just |
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get me started |
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> rantin' and ravin'). I've looked at Slackware, but the package management |
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looks just a |
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> little bit more than I can try to handle at first without getting |
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frustrated and scrubbing |
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> it off my hard drive. |
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> I've looked at a *LOT* of other distro's and too many use Gnome (I can't |
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stand it, |
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> that's my opinion so don't try to argue with me to change), some are a |
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bit too |
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> minimalistic and others too much like openSUSE is now - huge. |
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> I finally came upon Gentoo and for the past few days I've been reading |
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and looking at |
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> things and so far it seems to be what I'm wanting to switch to, but |
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here's my quandary: |
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> I'm dirt-poor and have only a dial-up connection. The Portage package |
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management seems |
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> extremely nice, but will it be a problem for me to upgrade say just one |
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package/app at a |
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> time? Will I be able to find a tarball of an app I want to try out and be |
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able to build it |
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> like I would with rpmbuild (will it be as relatively easy as that)? Is |
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there a |
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> 'repository' of apps anywhere that I can go to to look and see if the app |
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I normally use |
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> for something is there? |
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> There's probably more questions, but I best keep this short for now, |
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lol. Thanks for any |
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> replies and help with these things and I hope I made enough sense for |
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everyone to |
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> understand what I'm trying to get at. |
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> JB |
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Have a look at Sabayon. It's Gentoo-based, but it comes with binary |
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repository (although you can easily use portage if you want). |
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It offers 'out of the box' support for KDE4, xfce, or gnome3. Others are |
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available but you have to compile them yourself (via portage). |
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Rgds, |
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