[Chixla] New to the group

[Anne Henmi]

This one time, terri at power.net wrote:
> > Hey! RedHat since 6.1 and (to start the editor holy war) vi. :)
> I agree with vi. I've only used RedHat for about a year or so.

Yay! Go vi! Go vi! 
> > Tho I'm desperately looking for a replacement for RedHat, and Fedora,
> > with its planned 2-3 releases a year, does not appeal. I've heard
> > *wonderful* things about apt-get ... so I'm going to the source and
> > trying Debian. 
> I'm going to try Gentoo on my little ancient Toshiba Satellite 325CDS
> laptop. A friend of mine who is a Debian fan swears by Gentoo now. I've
> heard other raves as far as optimization for hardware, which would be
> ideal considering how old my ancient laptop is.

Gentoo pretty much brings the *BSD ways of software packaging to Linux.
What it does is it goes down and compiles the code on your system, just
like what the package management does on FreeBSD.
-Anne
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