[wuug-list] [Windsor Board] ezod: Re: New member -- What's your distro?

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Author: ezod
Username: ezod (dyn216-8-175-148.ADSL.mnsi.net)
Subject: Re: New member -- What's your distro?
Forum: The Kernels-And-Shells Department
Link: http://www.windsorboard.com/read.php?6,715,716#msg-716
Approved: Yes

Wes! What's up buddy?

I'm typing this on my Gentoo x86 PC (2.6 kernel). I used to flop between Slackware and FreeBSD for desktop purposes (with FreeBSD always winning for servers) until Xavier introduced me to Portage, and I've never looked back. I'm a minimalist, so Blackbox is the only WM for me (I've used Fluxbox, Enlightenment and WindowMaker in the past, which were OK, OpenLook on Sun boxes, which was OK, and tried CDE/XFCE/KDE/Gnome, which I didn't like).

I also have a headless Sun Ultra 10 server. It's been running Gentoo sparc64 (2.4 kernel) comfortably for over 2 years, before which it had NetBSD for a while, and before that it was my Solaris desktop machine with a Win2K SunPCi card.

Arch sounds like it's worth a try, though I rather like building from source most of the time...