I think I'm gonna go over to the East Side meeting tomorrow, which gives me
an opportunity to bum for discs. :D
The thing is, it's been several years since I shopped around on distributions.
I used to like Slackware, but I notice there's no official x86-64 version
(there IS slamd64 though).
I'm hesitant on Gentoo, anything Debian-derived, or most BSDs (although I
LIKE the retro feel many BSDs offer) because they seem very reliant about sucking
packages down the network. When a 120Mb package takes 12 hours of nursing
the connection, you can see why I'm hesitant. I want lots of packages on the
discs, and reasonably current ones.
Other major dislikes: SysV init scripts. Graphical boot.
Should I just go for slamd64, or does anyone else do a disc-oriented
distribution without all the pretty shinies?
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