On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Claudio M. Alessi wrote: > I think you are a bit wrong. I'm not a Gentoo supporter, I used Debian since I > can't image a way to handle packages better than it. OTOH the best OS I ever > try is NetBSD. It uses pkgsrc as main packages system which, similar is needed > in order to install most of the third party packages (without which the system > is still usable but umconfortable). Needless to say that I also use it on some > box. I must confess I'll use it as primary system (which actually is FreeBSD) > after a conflict between azalia(4) and the noapic support will be fixed. > > Saying that people have to ?stay away from it unless you're the kind of > hopeless idealist who doesn't mind waiting hours for simple software installs > and days before you have a usable system?, as Gentoo and other > hours-setting-up-based OS like NetBSD are, you are discredit a large part of > OS users and developers which, apart the idealisms, believe in some other > technical concept as, for example, efficiency, customization and > modularization > (which mean to have a light core where to build your OS upon). > > That's why I use and suggests NetBSD as KISS, power and fast OS.
+1 -- Brad Harder, Method Logic Digital Consulting http://www.methodlogic.net
