re: giving up, please help me choose a linux distro

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Date: 30 Oct 2005 20:40:20 -0800

>Hi, I run all *BSD machines and lately there has been a whole bunch of
>software that I need or want to use, but I just can't because it only
>works on linux =(. For example, I want to set up "the future
>technology of network filesystems", afs, but it only works on linux and
>solaris(grrrhh!!!!!!!). The way I do things now when I need certain
>network services installed on my network servers, I try on OpenBSD first,
>if it isn't supported, I then try FreeBSD, but a bunch of software has
>been found to not be supported on FreeBSD also, so I just want to install
>one linux box for those emergency situations. I am going to keep my BSD boxes, but if you guys had to
>use linux, could you please recommend the most BSDish linux to use, in
>other words, without all the bloat and extra trash(no offence to linux ppl). I was running a few
>linux boxes a few years ago and slackware seemed to be most BSDish at the
>time, but there was still too much juk installed. Also when I say most BSDish, I also mean easy to configure. When I
>had linux boxes, I had about a hundred rc files in my /etc folder. If I
>wanted to shut off some services,I had to go on a manhunt to find the
>correct config file. Also, I know I can build my own distro or whatever
>myself, but I would just like a nice distro I can use that is kept in a
>nice package but without the BS(aka Mandrake or Redhat). Thanks for your
>future input.
>Carl

>>From my experiance, I would go with Gentoo. I've played around at lot,
for a newbie I would of said Mandrake, but you didn't want all the crap
that came with it, and from the sound of it you sound like you know
what your on about, that is why I picked Gentoo. If you want to know
how a Linux distro works, then try Linux from Scratch, but for a quick
& dirty Linux system that compiles on your system, and easily
configurable (not default install paths or required packages), I would
go with Gentoo. Definately.

Anyone else have their opinions?!?

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