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torg:
have you ever built an rpm? that's a pain in the ass... some things just dont work with em. additionally you choose thedirectories you install your stuff in yourself. you also might create completely new directories on root level and what not. it just provides a wrapper for your install scripts and tared and gzipped files.
that's not what i meant with 'unified installer'... i meant a tool, that not only installs all the stuff, but also manages it, similar to suses yast (or the now defunct red-carpet from ximian) and it must work for all distributions.
fin:
suse has gotta be the best distro ive tried, although ive never delved much into "proper" distros like debian or slackware.
i'm using mandrake 10 the now, i stopped using suse a while back(7.x i think) cause mdk cd's are cheap to get hold of. it's(mdk) ok and pretty damn easy to use and install (i've not been messing about with the computer so much lately so my skills have dwindled) but it feels a bit more raggy than suse, if i was gonna spend money i'd buy suse probally.
Deacon:
Asking whether Double DIN-sized units support CD changers is like asking whether size 9 shoes are blue. The two concepts have nothing to do with each other, and the answer will differ depending on the particular size 9 shoe. One is a size while the other is a feature.
Morgul:
Ah, teh L1NuX. Yes, I have to admit, I am a linux geek. Hardcore linux hacker. And what distro do I use? Gentoo. Plain and simple, it's the best thing for ppl who want specific things. It's the most stable distro, period. the portage tools are amamzing, and installing things is easiy (alibet, it takes a while to compile them from source...) and I could go on and on.
Now, this being said, I have a G/F who really shoul have been born in the middle ages. She despises tech, and she would love it if we all rode horses, and lived in small villages. (She's cooky, but I love her.) She also admits that she needs a computer, and she learned early on to hate windows. (Spyware == teh sUxz0rZ!!!!11one) So, I put gentoo on there.
I must admit, having her run gentoo seemed retarded on my part, since she knows > 0 about computers... but she picked it up rather fast. It's REALLY scary doing an install for the first time... and I've never even dared to do a stage 1 install (I'm too damned lazy, and impatient). However, I would really recomend it to anyone who wants to either learn a lot, or 'play'. It's not something I'd say you must be l33t to use, but it is challanging.
Oh, and just so that I don't feel like I was ranting about my fav. distro; SuSE is a nice one that I've used for a few years. It's good, it's GUI, and it's hardware support is awesome. Mandrake is ok, but they don't do enough bug testing I think. Mandrake always feels... fragile to me. Hard to explain. It's easy to break. Fedora Core seems pretty good.. I've fallen out of the 'in crowd' though, so I don't know about the latest version.
Recomendations:
1) Gentoo
2) Suse
3) Fedora
4) anything running a 2.6 kernel ;)
Then again you could run:
Linux, running PearPC, emulating MacOSX, runing wine, emulating VMWARE, running windows98SE, running PearPC, running VMWARE, running Mandrake. (And yes, you CAN do it. No, I don't recommend it.)
Go4t:
another recommendation for Gentoo
i've tryed lots of different distros and im by far the happiest with gentoo
other than gentoo (since it can be a bitch to get working right) i would suggest debian
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