Anyone who knows anything about linux *cough frup* I have questions.

How is 9.10 shaping up? I'm looking to fresh install my main ubuntu computer as it is so agonizingly slow. Also are there any other linux offsets worth looking into, mainly which act as a good server?

Server? Depends what you're going to use it for.

9.10 is fine right. As for the server -- just install the desktop version and use mark-packages-by-task in synaptic to install server packages (or so)

What about linux alternatives?

*BSD is a bitch to install, apparently.
Most others aren't nearly as well supported as to be useful

Debian can support multiple kernels...

master5o1 wrote:*BSD is a bitch to install, apparently.
Most others aren't nearly as well supported as to be useful

Debian can support multiple kernels...

Yes I've read all about that, but it seems godly fast, especially version 8. All I want it to do is run torrents fast and be able to run h264 mkv's well.

Might just go with Gentoo, FreeBSD sounds like days of work. Gentoo just sounds like hours.

lol

gentoo takes days to configure and update

debian is ubuntu without the bloat, but it doesn't have all the drivers and codecs

fedora is like debian but RPM

mandriva or pclinuxos is almost like ubuntu is to debian to fedora

suse is ok but it smacks of MS.

Ubuntu 9.10 seems a bit like 8.10, I don't know whether it's worth the effort. they've changed the theme and it's even uglier (i don't mind the current one). It focuses mainly on adding cloud computing... all nonsense in my opinion.

I fell asleep.

frup wrote:lol

gentoo takes days to configure and update

debian is ubuntu without the bloat, but it doesn't have all the drivers and codecs

fedora is like debian but RPM

mandriva or pclinuxos is almost like ubuntu is to debian to fedora

suse is ok but it smacks of MS.

Ubuntu 9.10 seems a bit like 8.10, I don't know whether it's worth the effort. they've changed the theme and it's even uglier (i don't mind the current one). It focuses mainly on adding cloud computing... all nonsense in my opinion.

I fell asleep.

Gentoo is what I'm leaning towards at the moment, is it worth it for the long time to configure? it sounds super fast and relative to FreeBSD won't take as long or be as mind blowingly complex.

this is what happens when people complain about the colour scheme/theme -- it gets uglier


go try mint lolololol

superarmy wrote:

frup wrote:lol

gentoo takes days to configure and update

I fell asleep.

Gentoo is what I'm leaning towards at the moment, is it worth it for the long time to configure? it sounds super fast and relative to FreeBSD won't take as long or be as mind blowingly complex.

Ubuntu needs 512mb ram or 1gb ideally to be a good system
A debian system can run on as little as 128mb ram... I think this is often what people talk about speed... conversely it could be considered lack of features by some.


Gentoo is actually configured to your individual machine... but all the dependency hell etc requires you to know quite a bit about what you are doing. The real speed bonus comes in that you selectively choose what you want on the system taking away "bloat"


A better option than Gentoo that seems to be really popular is Arch... or even give slackware a try, again not easy, you'll be reading documentation.

FreeBSD isn't fast. Some benchmarks I saw placed it slower than Ubuntu.