... The "they all inhale vigorously" blues.
For the past few weeks, I've been using Arch Linux, since of all distros I know, it conforms most closely to what I look for. The problem is, Arch conforms to those ideals only in theory... Oh sure, it's got a nice package management system, and it's definitely fast and simple - but the package management system doesn't matter, because all the packages are absolutely infested with bugs. Everything from glibc (yep, you read that right!) to KDE seems to have a bug in it. Arch is, in fact, the only distro that's ever frozen on me - I mean frozen, Winduhs style, and forced me to hit the power switch.
So I'm looking for another distro. What am I looking for? Well...
- It must be reasonably up to date. 2.6 kernel (and I mean current - at least 2.6.9) optional if not default, Xorg 6.8.1, Firefox 1.0, etc.
- It must not be source based, because my FrankenPC has only a 450 MHz P3 processor, 384 megs of RAM, and a slow little 6.8 GB hard drive.
- It must be reasonably fast.
- It must have package management.
Anything out there like this?
(BTW, the only thing keeping me from installing Slackware this very minute is the lack of a current 2.6 kernel - if Swaret ain't package management I don't know what is.) |
