OpenEuphoria

Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Mar 08, 2006
• 696 views

Greg Haberek wrote:

> I like Ubuntu to a point. My friends and I have deemed it the best
> distro to just "get in and drive" so-to-speak. But for those of us who
> want to work "under the hood" - it totally sucks. Just read my post
> from last week on environment variables. There's no standard way to
> set them. You have to edit some proprietary "Environment" file, and
> even then they aren't expanded, so you can't do something like
> EUDIR=$HOME/euphoria, you'd have to do EUDIR=/home/greg/euphoria,
> which totally blows!
> 
> I'm going back to Slackware as soon as I get a new NIC in my Linux
> box. I just can't not work under the hood.
> 
> ~Greg

Obviously no one distro is right for everyone. Advanced Linux users will
probably prefer advanced distros like Slackware and Gentoo. Picking between the
hundreds of Linux distrobutions is an ugly task and really puts favor to the BSD
side with only a handful of distros.

I believe Slackware is all about configuring the system via text files and
Gentoo is about building a customized installation tailed to the users CPU from
source code. None of these spark interest to typical Linux newbies.

I will probably consider going to FreeBSD once r300+ acceleration drivers become
available. FreeBSD is the most popular BSD operating system, that could become
desktop friendly with a little work.


Regards,
Vincent