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On 11/09/12 01:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:46:14 -0700 |
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> Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> |
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>> Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: |
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>> ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and |
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>> questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge. |
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>> Supposedly gentoo lacks being able to have a system "just work" |
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>> without thinking about anything. But in my experience on linux, this |
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>> simply isn't the case anywhere. With ubuntu, for example, I had |
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>> trouble with sound and ethernet cards that I could never figure out... |
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>> and the kind of answers I get on their forums drive me insane ("my |
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>> uncle once said that his cousin typed this magical command and it |
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>> worked fine for a little while so maybe try that"). |
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>> |
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>> And what's the deal with these "major release versions" of the other |
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>> distros? Why do that? |
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> They are binary distros so they have no choice. For the duration of |
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> that version's life, all the packages shipped must all work together |
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> and that is only possible if the ABI does not change. |
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Arch Linux is a binary distro (by default, at least) and it seems to |
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have gotten this right though. |
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