Name: davemc 2007-04-03 3:27 ID:ti2NY1vm
Linux is evolving! The logic of remaining in an unchanging, or slowly advancing state is flawed, as has been unquestionably proven by Distro's such as Sabayon, PCLos, Mepis, and now Mint. The older base distros (Gentoo, Debian, SuSe) better pick up the pace by 100 fold or be left behind with the old folks who will still maintain them, and then slowly die away as the new generation of Linux guru's continue to expand Linux into newer arena's. But this is the way the world works -- Keep up, or stay ahead of the competition or die!.. Or do you really believe that most folks who actually use Linux on a day to day basis on thier desktop will be satisfied with the "no proprietary stuff on my distro" line of reasoning that is currently killing the older distro's? HAH! Wake up!
Barry Kauler has done what very very few could ever claim -- Create his own distro from scratch! Not just that, but a simply outstanding distro to boot with an incredibly vibrant community. Distro's like Puppy and DSL must have thier place on the list because they approach Linux with an entirely different philosophy and one that is extremely important -- functionality without the bloat! Puppy comes with a complete set of wizards, even including a "wizard wizard" which makes setups easier than just about any other bloated distro that exists today and both DSL and puppy reside in RAM completely. Those two are pretty much the only distro's im aware of that can breathe life back into your old 386 machine that was growing cobwebs, and do it well! And for you Debian cronies, DSL gets its roots from there too. The major differences being that Barry got it right with Puppy so things like youtube and DVD's work "out of the box" with no fiddling required by the user!
Barry Kauler has done what very very few could ever claim -- Create his own distro from scratch! Not just that, but a simply outstanding distro to boot with an incredibly vibrant community. Distro's like Puppy and DSL must have thier place on the list because they approach Linux with an entirely different philosophy and one that is extremely important -- functionality without the bloat! Puppy comes with a complete set of wizards, even including a "wizard wizard" which makes setups easier than just about any other bloated distro that exists today and both DSL and puppy reside in RAM completely. Those two are pretty much the only distro's im aware of that can breathe life back into your old 386 machine that was growing cobwebs, and do it well! And for you Debian cronies, DSL gets its roots from there too. The major differences being that Barry got it right with Puppy so things like youtube and DVD's work "out of the box" with no fiddling required by the user!