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Problem by Senor Barborito 03/05/2003, 1:14am PST
Ray, of Light wrote:

Senor Barborito wrote:

OK, V's workplace has decided to become a corporate sponsor of Fight Club and has contributed a 200MHz computer with 64MBs of RAM and 4GBs of SCSI UW HD to us (they gave away the old shit). That is my new firewall, freeing up a 400MHz, 128MB, 10GB OpenBSD firewall on which I would like to install a *nix desktop of some kind.

So . . . what should I go with? Gentoo? Redmond Linux? FreeBSD? Slackware?

I'm partial to FreeBSD or Redmond Linux myself, but I'm waaaay open to suggestions here so go at it.
--SB


Debian's approach is one of the few with any philosophical appeal. Too many distros build a framework of scripts and schemes and then flush the contents of freshmeat.net down it. The result is a neat technology demo and shitty operating system, all in one.

Ray!


dselect. I really, really, REALLY do not want to go through 2,000-odd packages in a fucking lameass console-GUI trying to trim out the cruft while attempting without any success to recall off the top of my head whether X is dependent on library Y and so forth.

I get shivers and lay awake at night breaking out into cold sweats just thinking about it. Debian *REALLY NEEDS AN HONEST TO GOD GUI* and a much, much better method of handling that shit (or perhaps you could inform me of one that I am not aware of?) before I'm willing to consider it.

As you might suspect, I've attempted Debian before, and got through about 500 packages before giving up in frustration. Nothing, I told myself, is worth this. I tossed the tray lightly aside and teleported myself the Hell out of Zaphod's life.

--SB
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