Alternatives to Fedora Core, was: [RULE] APT, YUM...

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:13, M. Fioretti wrote:
> 2) After install support: whatever the RULE starting distro is, it
>    must have a large desktop user community. So, after install with
>    RULE, people can count on an existing documentation and support
>    base *much* larger than we are. And we have more time ("the power
>    of not being another distro").

FYI, the Gentoo user-list sees about 75-80% of the traffic of the Fedora
user-list... and that's saying a lot!  Folks on the Gentoo list are just
as helpful, and seem to be a little more laid back.

> 3) The bloat is in the applications, not in the starting distro. DSL
>    default *is* light, but not for the faint of heart, first time
>    Linux user. He'd have to add something (=already have on the CD)
>    That's why I came up with the minikde idea, it can be applied to
>    any distro. Whatever distro you start from, you then *have* to make
>    something like minikde to make of it a *light* desktop for
>    beginners. Ditto for the X server (kdrive)
[snip]

Yes... although, FC2 was *very* quick to drop boot-to-floppy support. 
It didn't even warrant a discussion until *after* it was released.  And
the typical answer?  "The kernel's too big for a floppy... get a new
computer or a USB stick."  And now they are talking about dropping 486
support.  These are the things that lead me to believe that chasing
Fedora may be a lot of trouble.

Don't get me wrong... Fedora/Red Hat are excellent distributions.  Red
Hat has done a lot for Linux.  Many folks start off on Red Hat (now
Fedora)... for good reason.  Plus, Red Hat is proving that developing
Linux can be profitable, which is also good for Linux in general.

Peace,
Gabriel

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Gabriel M. Beddingfield
gabriel at teuton.org