I'm no expert about this, but I really like the idea. I was hoping to switch distros myself sometime soon (soon meaning within 4 months). As a mandrake user, I can tell you what I like and what I don't like: Likes: ease of installation frequent updates, whether security or just new version of a program urpmi tool (kinda like apt, but different, they have a gui for it too) ease to install E
Dislikes: configuration tools not really adequate for non newbie users difficulty to install new programs through rpms ( always have to be <blabla>.ix86.mdk.rpm, not any rpm, their names and deps are different) sometimes hard to compile programs because libs in path have a version # to it, have to make simlinks to have a correct compile. rpm based distro. All this to say that I would personally love see a distro of the same kind as gentoo, only a little easier to install (presets for various machines or hardware for instance). If I hadn't run into so many difficulties trying to install gentoo the first time, I would keep running it. The thing with gentoo is it installs only what you need, and compiled for your needs. In my opinion it's the best idea. What could make it easier would be a text configuration utility that asks for your hardware and sets the best options automatically and starts compiling the base programs on its own. In short a mix of gentoo and mandrake would be perfect. I don't know if it's feasible, and many of Mdk's configuration programs might be non open-source, which might be a little tricky in case of inclusion in a new distro. And for a name, how about "En-tux" ? Hoping for some actions to happen and contributions to give to this project soon, John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
