I want to congratulate my Turkish friends with Pardus 2009 release. This is the best KDE 4 integration work I've ever seen. And it runs smooth on my wife's ages old laptop, too!
Thank you very much, guys!
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Posted by berkus, Fri Aug 14 07:33:00 UTC 2009
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My first Linux experience was with Slackware 2.0, back in 1997. Then I quickly switched back to Windows camp and been out of the loop for a couple of years. My next Linux OS was Gentoo. I spent about 2 years in portageland before moving on to more conventional distros. After about half a year with OpenSUSE and a complete package management disaster I switched to Arch Linux and been a happy archer ever since.
Recently I however grew unsatisfied with where Arch goes and how it works (underpatched, rather poor integration work), so I ventured to look at the available options. Finding out about Pardus Linux at ELC in San Francisco was a trigger. I installed and briefly played with it. It's a solid and well-done distribution, with a lot of custom (and often much more usable than default) tools, for example Network Manager, which is very very good. Actually, I'm writing this from my Pardus install with KDE4 and going to install it for my wife soon.
Alas, Pardus is a user-oriented distro, for developer it becomes a bit cumbersome with it's outdated "stable" packages and missing some necessary development packages by default. So I went on. Right now I'm playing with installing the LFS system by the book on another laptop. It is a tedious manual bootstrap procedure, which leads me back to thinking about Gentoo. Now just checking out what's new in portageland, I found out about Paludis package management system, and Exherbo Linux - a developer oriented distro, which uses it. Now I'm going to check it out, and probably something along these lines will get my vote for running on my new macbook.
While at it, I decided to try out the infamous 64-bits Linux, first to try for myself, how problematic it is nowadays and how to help make Skype run on it natively, and second, I just love building cross-gcc. Should be rather fun!
Recently I however grew unsatisfied with where Arch goes and how it works (underpatched, rather poor integration work), so I ventured to look at the available options. Finding out about Pardus Linux at ELC in San Francisco was a trigger. I installed and briefly played with it. It's a solid and well-done distribution, with a lot of custom (and often much more usable than default) tools, for example Network Manager, which is very very good. Actually, I'm writing this from my Pardus install with KDE4 and going to install it for my wife soon.
Alas, Pardus is a user-oriented distro, for developer it becomes a bit cumbersome with it's outdated "stable" packages and missing some necessary development packages by default. So I went on. Right now I'm playing with installing the LFS system by the book on another laptop. It is a tedious manual bootstrap procedure, which leads me back to thinking about Gentoo. Now just checking out what's new in portageland, I found out about Paludis package management system, and Exherbo Linux - a developer oriented distro, which uses it. Now I'm going to check it out, and probably something along these lines will get my vote for running on my new macbook.
While at it, I decided to try out the infamous 64-bits Linux, first to try for myself, how problematic it is nowadays and how to help make Skype run on it natively, and second, I just love building cross-gcc. Should be rather fun!
