[olug] Debian

John DiMartino john_dimartino at mac.com
Mon Feb 2 05:14:15 UTC 2004


My PC is a home brew but I have an nForce 2 board...

I really like Knoppix but I am stuck between noob and guru (closer to 
noob) and I want to learn more that is why I am looking at distros like 
debian and gentoo.

Thanks for your help so far guys.

John



On Feb 1, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Dave Thacker wrote:

> On Sunday 01 February 2004 05:28 pm, Brandon Lederer wrote:
>> Gentoo Shines above all of them.  You get fairly bleeding edge, and a
>> decently stable system.  Rather you get to CHOOSE the version you 
>> WANT to
>> have.  Have problems, upgrade to a NEWER OR OLDER version of that 
>> software,
>> that fixes the bug.
>
> I'd also recommend against gentoo if you have newer "brand name" 
> hardware.
> It's been a perfect bitch to install on both HP desktops and servers.
>
> DT
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