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slave:
Nice, but I can't be arsed to go back now that I finished installing debian.  Anyway what makes debian good besides apt-get is the fact that there are TONS of packages in the repository, more than red hat or slackware.  But still, a neat development for slackware.

skyman8081:
Debian GNU/Linux is quite good and is the only one that properly calls Linux (when referring to it as an OS) by it's proper name of "GNU/Linux".  Debian is also known for it's stability.  however on the more stable versions of debian the oackages can be a bit out of date, and debians apt repositories are a tab bit lacking.

To insult gentoo is to lose the will to live.
Gentoo is a VERY good distro that is well documented, especially considering that slack and gentoo are similar in install difficulty, only gentoo is slightly harder to install than slack.  once you have gentoo working it is MUCH easier to use. and fast too, even KDE! and portage owns apt.

slave:
I don't use gentoo mainly because it's even harder to install than debian, and when a new version of kde or whatever is out I don't want to spend 8+ hours compiling it on this pentium 3.

Slackware is much easier to install than gentoo, by the way.  I didn't have to read a 30 page manual to install slack.

SPENEN:
I use debian, took a week to get my usb mouse and graphic card to work =)

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
I don't use gentoo mainly because it's even harder to install than debian, and when a new version of kde or whatever is out I don't want to spend 8+ hours compiling it on this pentium 3.

Slackware is much easier to install than gentoo, by the way.  I didn't have to read a 30 page manual to install slack.
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What is it with linux distros that seem to think everyone is up for an ftp install. Last time I did this I left out so many basic packages that my computer was practically unusable. I miss an install that told me what I needed for some basic operations. Gentoo is by no means easy to install. Well documented != easy to install. Keep this in mind. According to my father, swapping the engine in my brother's cavalier was easy, but its funny how there is a 1000 page manual.

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