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

From: Matt van de Werken (mvdw_at_swiftdsl.com.au)
Date: 10/31/05

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    messiahandrw@gmail.com wrote:
    >>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?!?
    >

    Slackware is the most BSD-like of the Linux distro's, if that's what the
    OP is after. Although, I changed from slackware to gentoo, quite happily.

    Cheers,
    mvdw

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