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gmat · 03-25-2003, 06:46 PM

Airspirit: linux is very touchy about overclocking and unstability, when compiling stuff.
Also if you've got an archive (zip, tar.gz) and the archiver say's there's a problem.. Don't even try running the contents. The archive is fubared. Download it elsewhere or get another CD.
Personally i don't like RedHat or Mandrake, those are huge distros that come with tons of stuff you don't even know about.
I prefet installing the kernel, and chosing *each* program i'll put there. Gentoo does that perfectly. Heard that freeBSD (not linux) worked the same way than Gentoo does (compilable packages). It works as advertised, indeed.

03-25-2003, 06:46 PM	#11
gmat Thermophile Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: France Posts: 1,221	Airspirit: linux is very touchy about overclocking and unstability, when compiling stuff. Also if you've got an archive (zip, tar.gz) and the archiver say's there's a problem.. Don't even try running the contents. The archive is fubared. Download it elsewhere or get another CD. Personally i don't like RedHat or Mandrake, those are huge distros that come with tons of stuff you don't even know about. I prefet installing the kernel, and chosing each program i'll put there. Gentoo does that perfectly. Heard that freeBSD (not linux) worked the same way than Gentoo does (compilable packages). It works as advertised, indeed.