Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

[Vaughn Treude <vltreude@xxxxxxxx>]

Marc Moreau wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
> Jason Elder <sundevil724@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I recently installed linux on my machine for the sole purpose to install gEDA.  I went through a couple of Linux installations before I got gEDA to work and I would like to share my feedback. (Short answer below...see conclusion)
> >
> > There were 3 criteria I wanted the distro to fulfill be fore I chose:
> >
> > 1)  It had to have Firefox 2.0 or later, 2) It had to have the latest version of OpenOffice, 3) I wanted the source code as well as development packages to be installed with a full install of the distro.
>
> In these three regards, might I sugest Gentoo.  That is the distro I use.  The only thing that my be an issue is in your conclusion.
>
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> > My goal here was to find one that I can download, burn, install, have the latest version of firefox and openoffice, and then install gEDA with minimum hassle.
>
> Gentoo is great IMO for the top three criteria, however it does require some tinkering. The "just works" quotient is pretty low.  For a home where tinkering is okay, it's great.  *nix experience is most decidedly required -- not a newbie distro.
>
> my 2c.
>
> -Marc

CentOS has worked out fine for me.  I actually chose it because I had to 
have a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for another project.  It just 
happened to work will with gEDA.

Vaughn T.

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