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Distributions?
« on: June 14, 2005, 09:37:39 am »
Whats your favorite distro and why?

Mine is Slackware because iago uses it! =)
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2005, 09:45:26 am »
My favorite BSD Distribution: OpenBSD (runs very fast and is very secure)
Favorite Linux Distribution: Slackware or Gentoo (I can't decide!)
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2005, 10:42:00 am »
Slackware, because I've always used it.
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2005, 10:44:22 am »
Quote from: Joe[x86] on June 14, 2005, 09:37:39 am
Whats your favorite distro and why?

Mine is Slackware because iago uses it! =)

That's a stupid reason. I use slackware for the same reason as iago, I always have. For BSD, I'd probably choose OpenBSD, for it's ship-with-security-ness (yes, that word rocks.) and it's stability and speed.
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2005, 12:47:40 pm »
Slackware because it rescued me from RH9 >:O!
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2005, 04:53:12 am »
Ok, "because iago uses it" is a stupid reason.

1) Security. Er, iago said so.

2) Pretty much all-inclusive. You never have to get anything. Its all there for you.

3) It likes my cordless USB mouse. Yes it does.

4) I can't think of a 4th thing.
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2005, 04:57:10 am »
I use Ubuntu "Hoary Hedgehog" Linux for my PowerPC box for the following reasons.

1) I got free, awesome-looking CD's shipped to me through their "Ship-it" program (almost typed shit twice).

2) It has apt-get by default and that made my life easy.

3) It works the hardware I have, and nothing had to be changed at all. My USB mouse and keyboard worked right out of the box, although iMac's can't use the old-world mac 4-pin keyboards even if we wanted, nor their mice.

I would, however, want to try out Slackintosh, the Macintosh Slackware, to see which I like better. Thankfully, I have a second Mac I could do this on so I wouldn't have to reformat! iago tells me Slackintosh is horribly out of date, but I think (and I believe he backed me up on this one, but don't shoot me if he didn't), that some software upgrades and a kernel upgrade and I'll be uptodate.
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2005, 08:12:22 am »
Quote from: Joe[x86] on June 15, 2005, 04:57:10 am
2) It has apt-get by default and that made my life easy.

Incidentally, all that does is download/install a .rpm file.  Lately, especially at work and on my slower computers, I've been using slapt-get which downloads/installs a .tgz package.
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2005, 08:53:44 am »
I'll have to see if Ubuntu came with that.. *pokes cave's power button*

Nope. Ubuntu (at least the powerpc distro) doesn't have slapt-get. Nor does apt-get allow you to install it. =/.

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joe@cave:~ $ apt-get install spapt-get
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
joe@cave:~ $ sudo apt-get install slapt-get
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package slapt-get
I downloaded it from freshmeat, but it was already built for x86. I'ma go look for the source code. If anyone finds it first, let me know.

EDIT -
A merry hunt you've lead me on, iago, before letting me know that sl in slapt means Slackware. =/.

EDIT -
Word, when did I start giving a fuck? *installs*

EDIT/b] -
Wow, that thing hates my PPC guts. *gets on with life*
« Last Edit: June 15, 2005, 09:08:17 am by Joe[x86] »
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2005, 09:15:50 am »
Quote from: Joe[x86] on June 15, 2005, 08:53:44 am
I'll have to see if Ubuntu came with that.. *pokes cave's power button*

Nope. Ubuntu (at least the powerpc distro) doesn't have slapt-get. Nor does apt-get allow you to install it. =/.

Code: [Select]
joe@cave:~ $ apt-get install spapt-get
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
joe@cave:~ $ sudo apt-get install slapt-get
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package slapt-get
I downloaded it from freshmeat, but it was already built for x86. I'ma go look for the source code. If anyone finds it first, let me know.

EDIT -
A merry hunt you've lead me on, iago, before letting me know that sl in slapt means Slackware. =/.

EDIT -
Word, when did I start giving a fuck? *installs*

EDIT/b] -
Wow, that thing hates my PPC guts. *gets on with life*

I thought it was obvious that slapt-get was for slackware.  I didn't really think about it :P

And yeah, installing prepackaged ix86 binaries on ppc probably wouldn't work.
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2005, 10:13:38 am »
I know. =).
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2005, 03:17:28 pm »
Joe, why don't you try out Yellow Dog ? I've heard mostly good things about it.

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2005, 07:00:57 pm »
We have YellowDog installed on a iBook laptop (or something..it's orange and heavy) at work.  It lives in a drawer, and I've never used it, but it installed!
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« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2005, 07:36:18 pm »
Well I could give it a new home ^^ :] ?
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Re: Distributions?
« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2005, 09:31:07 pm »
We're government; we don't throw anything out.  Ever.
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