Stable and fast distro with a good package management system
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Stable and fast distro with a good package management system
Hello, I want to install in my pc a stable and fast distro with a good package management system, the problem is that i don't know wich one.
I tried with Slackware two years ago for a few months (Maybe 3/4 year), it was a nice distro, but I eventually got tired of all the dependency thing. Then i use Fedora for a month and then ubuntu. Since then, I had ubuntu 5.10 on my pc.
The last friday, i tried to make an upgrade to dapper and my system died, in a painfull way. After that, I install edgy and now I have dapper, but i'm having to much problems to configure it properly (By example, i was watching a couple of pictures with firefox and then i saw that two of that pictures partially went over my wallpaper. Besides, if i try to kdesu konqueror, nothing happends (I can use that command with others apps), if I try to sudo something it works, but I get a lots of errors in my console. So... i have more of that kind of problems... the ones that i don't have a clue on how to resolve.
So, I was looking another distro, debian? gentoo? fedora again? Is Gentoo too hard for a almost-noob?
The Linux Energizer Bunny question...it keeps going and going and going...
Try Gentoo. Stick with the the stable branch. No it's not too hard for a noob, if that noob reads the installation guide and follows it. It'll take some time to initially get setup. Just don't get impatient. Also, use the text-based install, not the GUI. The GUI was problematic, but the Gentoo guys may have that worked out by now.
The GUI was problematic, but the Gentoo guys may have that worked out by now.
Yeah, I have recently tried the install GUI with 2006.1 Live CD and it worked, anyway I would recommend to make a networkless install and not to create a boot partition, but only one Linux partition mounted as /. The partitioner is still a little bit buggy in the Gentoo installer.
If you are searching for a FAST package management, so APT is the best and you have to take Debian SID, if you are searching for a distro which is also bleeding edge, but gives you more options for customization, take Gentoo.
This is the distro I use and recommend, Why because it works right out of the box. No need to configure Everything, everything just works. It also comes as a 1 CD install that is a live CD that you can install later if you wish.
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