From: Eric Shubert > If you haven't jumped into virtualization yet, I would certainly do so. > It will make your dist-hopping experience much more pleasurable. Running a distro in a VM won't tell you anything about how well that distro handles real hardware. It'll show you a bunch about the distro, of course, so you might say "I hate the package management system," or "I can't deal with the {ancient/unstable} versions of $FOO it provides," or stuff like that. But you could totally use VMs to winnow out all the distros you don't like, and try 2 or 3 of those that remain on actual hardware. > Sabayon looks interesting. When I last looked at Sabayon (1.5 years ago), it was wildly unstable, lots of stuff would break if you updated anything, and that made it a royal PITA to get ordinary things done. Maybe that's less true now. I'm using Gentoo, because it doesn't second-guess me, and it makes it quite easy to install evil binary-only things if I want. Thing is, compiling everything from source is less advantageous now than it was 6 years ago, since CPUs are faster and there's not as much difference between CPU instruction sets as there used to be. Having all the development headers for everything already makes it much easier to compile (whatever) from freshmeat/sourceforge/your own twisted imagination though. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss