Michael Dolan Dot Com

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Finding your niche distro

Found a nice run through of the different distro’s and which cater to a particular users’ needs/personality. This link could help you answer that question from a friend “which distro is the best” as they’re starting off with Linux.

My favorite though is still this Newforge article about what your distro says about you.

If John Wayne had been a Linux user, he would have used Gentoo. Gentoo users are pioneers, people who like to live close to the metal, and don’t mind hurting themselves on sharp objects. Some feel that Gentoo users are simply lazy louts who always want to have a ready excuse for why they are not doing constructive things with their computer, other than compiling or recompiling the latest kernel, app, or hapless passerby. The official Gentoo motto is, “If it moves, compile it.”