Thank You

[geekthattweaks]

I just wanted to say thank you to ya'll for all that you have done. With your help and my stubbornness I've finally installed linux.:D Thank You.

[cybertron]

Glad to hear it.:)

[Syngin]

Glad to hear it. What distro did you go with?

[crow2icedearth]

yeah what distro ? my favorites are GENTOO and DEBIAN for linux and FreeBSD and openBSD for *NIX .

[geekthattweaks]

I had a friend burn Ubuntu.We are learning it together.

[geekthattweaks]

Why do you recommend Gentoo?

[cybertron]

It's insanely customizable and flexible. On the down side it's more work to get up and running. If you want/are willing to learn a lot about how your system works then it's a good choice, but if you're looking for simple it's probably not.

[Icarus]

Gentoo is great but it's a lot of work to setup and keep running, not to mention keep up with their changes. They recently pushed out a new coreutils that moved around a lot of executables (moved /usr/bin/bash to /bin/bash for example). And missing a USE flag for some packages changes them completely leaving you with something you didn't want :p

But if you like to tweak and learn, it's great! :D

[crow2icedearth]

Why do you recommend Gentoo

because it uses the linux kernel....... and it is basically a rip off of freeBSD port ..... I use both freeBSD and Gentoo the most... i have had no problems with gentoo. and once its insalled you never need to do a full install gain. i have it installed for nearly 2 years ....... just need to do updates and thats what cron is for ....... :)

[geekthattweaks]

Cool I'll have to give it a go.

[cybertron]

just need to do updates and thats what cron is for ....... :)
Have to be careful doing that though as some updates can break things or require configuration changes. And you'll almost always need to remember to run dispatch-conf or etc-update afterwards.