[Foresight-distro] Re: The md5sum for Foresight Linux Disc 1 and 2

[Paul Scott-Wilson]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:33:28AM +0200, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
| In Linux Format Christmas 2006 Andy Hudson evaluates Fedora Core 6 vs
| Ubuntu 6,10 giving on page 27 "Performance" value 9/10 for Fedora and
| 10/10 for Ubuntu. What do you think about the relevance these figures
| have?
I haven't read the article so I can't make anything of the figures. As I
mentioned before, if the speed is adequate then it isn't a major concern to me.

(This part kinda turned into a Foresight and me :P )

The main thing I look for is the Package manager. The fact Windows doesn't
have anything like one is why I stopped using Windows entirely and switched
to FreeBSD. Every now and then I'd have the urge to try some flavor of Linux
but none really gave me reason to switch. I'd used FreeBSD for a long time on
my server and I tend to prefer how things work on BSD. I like having a clean
base to install the software on rather than removing what I don't. When I was
using my laptop as my main machine recompiling was becoming a bit of a chore.
I could have used Packages but I decided to find something lower maintenance.
After trying the usual suspects I discovered Arch Linux which felt a lot like
FreeBSD. Pacman and ABS gave a similar experience to Ports and Packages but
with binaries being the norm.

Later I heard about Mono and was interested in trying it. At the time Foresight
was the only free distro I found which had it in the base install. So I
installed it and had a play with some of the Mono stuff; never intended to
ditch Arch since everything else was basically the same. Some time later I saw
an article about conary and wanted to give it a try to. After a couple hours of
playing and talking in the channel I had made my first package. Before that I
had only really modified Makefiles and PKGBUILDs to bump the version or add a
feature so the cooking process was quite amazing. Recipes are written in Python
which is awesome and conary does all the work in figuring out dependencies
which makes the process really easy. On top of that Foresight actually gave me
a usable desktop without any work.

And thats what I've been using since. I run FreeBSD on my server and main
workstation and Foresight on everything else, including a PC connected to the
family TV.

--
Paul.