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Recommend a Linux distro

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-19 5:00

I'd need a new Linux distro, please recommend me some based on the following:

1. I hate compiling. I hate wasting my time to try software; I want to install, try, and uninstall very quickly, as you would do in Windows. I like software made of a single file (or a directory with subfolders) I can copy by hand and it works. I know this is hardly found in Linux but a least I'd like a decent package system and a wide library of binaries.

2. I love latest versions of Firefox, libSDL-devel, etc.

3. I hate the FHS because it's a mess and everything is mixed up in shitboxes. I know it'll be hard to avoid if I want compiled stuff, though, but a few recommendations on distros using a sane directory design would be good too.

4. I like Windows NT.

5. I'm a developer, but remember I don't want to waste my time compiling stuff, linking kernels, etc., I have a tight agenda of stuff I need to get done, and I'm not getting paid to compile other's code, but to get my own working.

Thanks in advance

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-19 8:48

A few of the things you ask for are pretty much impossible - case sensitivity, for example, is here to stay.

Apart from that you might try GoboLinux. http://www.gobolinux.org/
The name sounds kinda lame but it's the only distro I know of to be attempting what you, and many others, would consider to be a sane directory structure. I haven't got around to trying it yet, but you sure can.

You can actually "install, try and uninstall very quickly" in APT based distros - ie Debian and its derivatives - and since Debian is so popular there's a .deb package for pretty much any given program. Still have to deal with the traditional directory structure though.

Your ideal distro according to your criteria doesn't exist as far as I know. Maybe you should make your own.

(Windows trolls incoming in 3...2...1...)

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