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Hello and Happy New Year to all, |
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I am so enamoured with Gentoo that I couldn't resist passing on this bit |
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of trivia. |
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O'Reilly recently published a book called "Linux Desktop Pocket |
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Reference". The first chapter is available for viewing on the O'Reilly |
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website and in that chapter the author rated, from his personal |
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experience, 5 distributions under the following categories in the |
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process of getting Linux on the desktop: |
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Installation, Configuration, Program Installation, Documentation (Gentoo |
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rated 5 here, which is *totally* understandable and deserving), and |
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finally gave a weighted average for these. |
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The weighted averages for the 5 distros were: |
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Fedora: 3.45 |
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*Gentoo: 3.75* |
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Mandriva: 3.70 |
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Suse: 3.40 |
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Ubuntu: 3.90 |
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I've used all of these distros with the exception of Suse and can |
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understand why Ubuntu rated slightly higher than Gentoo. I found it |
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very easy to get it installed and for me, it detected all my hardware |
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and configured everything without a glitch. However, I find it |
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interesting to note that Gentoo scored the 2nd highest when it's |
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supposed to be one of the most difficult distros to get installed. |
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I admit, I did suffer some growing pains when installing Gentoo, but I |
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still think it's the greatest because of the control it gives me and I |
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have learned a lot about things like compiling the kernel in the process. |
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Gentoo rocks! |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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