Linux Adventures Reloaded!

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I gots me a dual-head box with Gentoo. Useing the 2.6.5 kernel with Fluxbox as my WM. I can boot into the consol in about 15 seconds, give or take time for me to enter 2 passwords and hit the enter key for Eden's gate, and 5 seconds for consol to Xfree. It's all in how you compale yoru kernel. If you add junk that you don't need it's going to take longer. Working on getting mine down to 15 even.

As for linux being bloatware, I think your talking about things like Mandrake and Red Hat. They do get bigger and bigger but if you build your own then it's not bloatware.

 :-D

[lame_duck]

While I respect your option Macto, I have to say that FreeBSD is good, but limited. Game companies are starting to adopt linux which gives it a +5 usefulness in my book.  :-D

I do not reconmend Linux-from-scratch. To much crap for the "home" user and some seasoned users. For that I recommend Gentoo. Lots easyer and the community is great! Can't beat Debian linux for a nice, non-bloat distro that you don't have to compile everything for.

BTW, back in the day I used FreeBSD for a long time on my old 486. There was this "What OS is right for you?" thing on cnet.com and it sayed FreeBSD. So I got the boot floppy, took 2 days for download and install. Was great tho. How's things there latly?

[lame_duck]

Sorry about not responding sooner, net went down. Here is my past from two days ago that didn't make it.

ottomobiehl: Try Debian if you want a simple distro. What I mean by simple is it uses RPM, install package, to setup programs and services. Want something more custom and speedy try Gentoo. Great community and nice doc to help you. I tryed useing the newbie handbook to install my system, gave up, and used the advanced user quick install. Go figure, seemed easyer to be than 110 pages telling me the same thing.

Debian: http://www.debian.org/
Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/

Before you take the plung, look up what window manager you would like to use and try the 2.6 kernels.

Email me at jamie20ATgameboxDOTcom if you need help.

[lame_duck]

You would be crazy but, I've had some success using it in the past, and it's the only RPM based distro, that I know of, where you can build a custom system with out most the bloat.