[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On 21 Mar 2003, Koyote wrote:

> maybe it has something to do with choices, and a fairly welld eveloped
> and easy to use source/compiling system.

It might.  But none of the local Gentoo users have ever mentioned that.

> Which version did you last use?

Whatever was newest as of a month ago.

> 1.4 does have an installation method that works reasonably well, if
> it's a bit lacking in the sun mandated slow java gui install.

suninstall still works as of Solaris 9 and is pretty-much a direct
decendant of the suninstall of the SunOS 4.x days.  You don't -have- to
use the Java installer crapplication.

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Jonathan Patschke  *) "Saying 8MB of RAM doesn't do as much anymore is
Thorndale, TX      (*  like saying a gallon of water holds more than it
                   *)  did in 1988."                    --George Adkins