Craig wrote:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
I tried one of the earlier releases and didn't get the experience it was suggested i would, i left it overnight compiling and got back the next day to find it had really screwed up somewhere in the build process so I was understandably a bit pissed off :)
The early releases were a bit awkward but weren't most distros were like this in their early stages?
I think the newer releases are supposed to be much improved though, although I don't think I will be giving up Debian for a very long time yet.
The new beta 1.4 using gcc3.2 is really decent to use. I'm switching to that for this home machine. Work machine is just flying! ;)
We're still using 1.2, because we have a lot of live machines now, and change control is important. Maybe we should play with 1.4 now.
Now I'm into Gentoo, I can't imagine using another distro, and certainly not an RPM-based one. I used to like SuSE, and always disliked RH and all its spin-offs. I looked at Debian, and didn't really get on with it. Gentoo is superb, and it's as up-to-date as I want it to be. For a commercial environment, which is what we have, it's excellent.
Cheers, Laurie.