Jlawrence tacenergy com wrote on Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:18:29 -0600: > Hello List, > > Being somewhat of a Linux newbie, I have always defaulted to Red Hat > since it was the easiest to install and get up and running. Now that I > have a*little* experience under my belt, I would like to try something > different. I am somewhat miffed about RH 8.0 and how it customizes Gnome > for you, so I would like to get some people's recommendation for a > distribution that meets these requirements: > > 1. Plays well with laptops. This will be going on my Dell Inspiron > 2650. Except for the Nvidia video chipset, everything "just works." I > can get the video working just fine. Because I am inexperienced with > hardware, I need a distro that will auto-detect these sorts of things. > 2. Has a current (>2.0) version and stock install of Gnome. This is the > main reason that I want to try something different - I want a stock > install of Gnome that hasn't been jacked with in some way. > > So, any suggestions? > > Josh Lawrence I don't know about your experience in Linux but I think that Gentoo-Linux is the right for you. It is a little bit tricky but it isn't really difficult to install. Why should you use it? -You will find a FreeBSD-like ports system -All the Software you merge, will be compiled with the instructions you gave. So you can build your individual System -The Software ist very actual (Gnome 2.0.3, GCC 3.2.1, KDE 3.1_rc6, Mozilla 1.2, etc.) because of the ports system, no binaries must be build -There are Packages to install Software directly from the CVS (f.e. Galeon, Gaim) If you have any other questions, ask!! For more Information see www.gentoo.org Greetings... ...Lars Strojny ______________________ ()_()Larry the Cow was a little bit frustated (° °)about the current state of Linux-Distros... ^(_) ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Lars Strojny _o) lars strojny net _o) /\\ ICQ: 309598303 _o) /\\ | \\ http://.strojny.net/lars _(\) _\_V _\__V Registered Linux User: #299089 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ...before he tried Gentoo-Linux!
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