Cliff Moon on 20 Aug 2007 20:11:40 -0000


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Re: [PhillyOnRails] Which Linux distro?


Even better is being X hours into a compile and your ssh connection
hiccups.  Really brings the usefulness of the screen command into sharp
focus.

Justin W. Reagor wrote:
> I thought the whole point of Gentoo was just a glorified LFS with a
> rip of the FreeBSD ports system? So if ls didn't have color set by
> default it was the builders fault. The thing that used to piss me off
> about Gentoo was I'd be 12hours deep into a install and forgot why I
> was building it in the first place.
>
> :: Justin Reagor
> :: justinwr@gmail.com <mailto:justinwr@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Mat Schaffer wrote:
>
>> On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Cassius Rosenthal wrote:
>>> And as for gentoo -- are you nuts?!?  On a development machine,
>>> sure.  On a workstation, maybe.  On a production server?  That's bad
>>> practice.
>>
>> Yeah, you're probably right about the gentoo on production machines
>> thing.  I tend to go CentOS when building something for large scale
>> work.  But anymore it disappoints me to use a distro that doesn't
>> have ls color turned on by default.  Like debian last time I used it.
>>
>> Simiarly, Solaris 10 bugs me cause doesn't even include a terminal
>> definition for xterm-color.
>> -Mat
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