Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

["Samuel A. Falvo II" <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/05, Syed Faisal Akber <faisal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You just asked a very sensitive question.  Asking which distribution to
> use is like asking one's religion.  There are no good or bad answers (most
> of the time).  Some distributions have merits over others and vice-versa.
>
> I prefer Slackware.

Agreed. I'm VERY happy with Slackware, at least as of 10.0.  I do need
to try upgrading though -- I've been meaning to do so for quite some
time.

However, I'm actually interested in Linux From Scratch, because I'd
really like to learn the ins and outs of Linux distributions a lot
better.  And, besides that, I'd like my environment to be based more
on AppDirs (those familiar with MacOS X or RoxFiler will know exactly
what I'm talking about), for their convenience.  Since this is a
personal workstation environment, and not a server environment, the
issues of proper partition planning such as whether to put something
in /usr versus /usr/share versus /usr/share/lib versus /usr/local/lib
doesn't pertain to my needs.

It would be interesting to see gEDA as a ROX-Filer AppDir "package."

> I suggest that you try the various different versions before sticking to a
> particular flavour of Linux.  If you can get your hands on VMware
> Workstation, you can install Linux in a Virtual Machine while running
> windows.  Try out each distribution until you find the one you like.

If you don't want to use VMware for whatever reason, there are
alternatives.  qemu is my personal recommendation.  It's completely
free too, but it does (as far as I know for Linux, and I assume it
applies for Windows too) lack a convenient GUI interface.

--
Samuel A. Falvo II