The *nix cat fight thread. No, I really just want opinions ;-)

[Piru]

@redrumloa

I personally prefer debian myself (ubuntu and friends are based on it).

Is there yet any Active-X compatible modules for Konquerer or Mozilla?

No. You can run IE under linux though: ies4linux

With this you can use IE itself for the specific pages requiring ActiveX crap.

[Piru]

I guess he means network install.

[Piru]

@d0pefish

Almost everything is compiled from source code making it very stable

How does building from source make it stable?

and fast

How much faster? And is it really worth the trouble to compile yourself to get few percent faster binaries?

and you get to decide exactly what gets put onto your system; you can fine-tune it very easily.

Which is equally possible with any other good distribution. You don't need to compile your own packages for that. But if you insist, you can build the packages yourself on other good distros aswell.

I'm not saying Gentoo is a bad distribution, but I don't see it being somehow better than the others, at least not using your criteria. And it certainly isn't friendly for someone who wants to get something up and running fast (agreed, Debian probably isn't that either ;-)).

[Piru]

@d0pefish

Okay comparing that to for example Debian (the distro I know best): The only thing not available in Debian is global USE flags, but then again if you don't build from src, it's kind of pointless (at least assuming you have 2GB HDD storage for installation).

Everything else mentioned is available in Debian (and any Debian based distro) aswell, although not necessarily in the same form.

Finally, regardless of distribution, at some point the user will need to do some rather low level maintenance. At this point all distros are the same: RTFM... :-)