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Ubuntu has your wifi driver too: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... er/Madwifi. Google "ubuntu madwifi" or "ubuntu madwifi howto".

madwifi-ng on packages.gentoo.org

madwifi-project.org Wiki about Gentoo
Gentoo Wiki about madwifi

That helps thanx sooner or later I will try them all...

Whats so bad about SuSE? I tried Ubuntu and the installer did not work properly. I guess I really havnt tried other distros, but thats probably because suSE was the only one that worked right.

I have never used suse only
Ubuntu,
puppy,
DSL,
Kubuntu,
Linux mint (old),
Dream,
And a few others I cannot remember, there somewhere in my room

I recommend ArchLinux, the package manager is awesome, handles dependencies amazingly, very modular and all packages but the base system are optional. The community is helpful and there is an extensive wiki. Only down side is that it requires some setting up, once it has been done, it is finished as it is rolling release, so no reinstalling is required.

XFire wrote:I recommend ArchLinux, the package manager is awesome, handles dependencies amazingly, very modular and all packages but the base system are optional. The community is helpful and there is an extensive wiki. Only down side is that it requires some setting up, once it has been done, it is finished as it is rolling release, so no reinstalling is required.

I came here to say the same thing, and you beat me to it!

steveklabnik wrote:

XFire wrote:I recommend ArchLinux, the package manager is awesome, handles dependencies amazingly, very modular and all packages but the base system are optional. The community is helpful and there is an extensive wiki. Only down side is that it requires some setting up, once it has been done, it is finished as it is rolling release, so no reinstalling is required.

I came here to say the same thing, and you beat me to it!

Hear, hear

Just downloaded arch linux and installed it in a VM. I'm pretty impressed so far, and might end up dropping Ubuntu.

I have used SuSE for a while.

It means you can't properly install anything that's not in their package management
And all manual changes to configuration files are overwritten the moment you use YaST on them.

I'm not ever going back.

so many, I read there was 200 distros and 400 distro servers. So many choices were to start with limited bandwidth?

JohnnyTheDon wrote:Just downloaded arch linux and installed it in a VM. I'm pretty impressed so far, and might end up dropping Ubuntu.

That's actually what I did. I'm now using xmonad + arch full time. If you care to see my setup, I blogged about it here.

berkus wrote:But I'll just say my $0.02 for ArchLinux - as close to LFS as Slackware, but as easy in package management as no other linux in existence...

Out of curiosity, and because I'm not familiar with Arch and Slackware: What do they have that Gentoo doesn't?

Hi,
Choice of a linux distro is a matter of personal taste than anything else . However for the sake of argument .....

Solar wrote:

berkus wrote:But I'll just say my $0.02 for ArchLinux - as close to LFS as Slackware, but as easy in package management as no other linux in existence...

Out of curiosity, and because I'm not familiar with Arch and Slackware: What do they have that Gentoo doesn't?

Slackware is the first and oldest distro . Arch and Gentoo are relatively new , so your question should be rephrased

Out of curiosity, and because I'm not familiar with Gentoo and Arch: What do they have that Slackware doesn't?

Shrek wrote:Out of curiosity, and because I'm not familiar with Gentoo and Arch: What do they have that Slackware doesn't?

Well, I was aiming at the blanket statement that Arch were "as close to LFS as Slackware, but as easy in package management as no other linux in existence". Which struck me as being a bit strong...

I haven't used Slackware or Arch myself, so I have to judge from what ressources I can find online (http://www.distrowatch.com mostly):

• Slackware supports i486 (no 64bit support at all?), Arch supports i686 and x86_64. Gentoo supports a wide variety of platforms. (Not that I need it myself, but you asked for the differences.)
• Slackware and Arch don't seem to have multilingual / asian language support, according to distrowatch.com. Gentoo does. (Again, I don't need that, but there you are.)
• Slackware, specifically, either isn't properly updated on distrowatch.com, or is seriously lacking in up-to-date packages.

What made me chose Gentoo was:

• Config File Protection.
• Gentoo's all-manual installation process taught me much about how a Linux system works (e.g., how to chroot into an mounted installtion), helping me with many issues later on.
• Its package management system allows me to control very specifically which packages should be taken from the "testing" branch, which packages shouldn't be upgraded at all, or which packages should be configured which way. (Example: All my packages come with Native Language Support, except binutils / GCC / make, because I prefer the english error messages when I have to Google for solutions. It's a breeze to set that up in Gentoo.)
• Again, I don't know about Arch or Slackware, but I know that Gentoo Portage is much more helpful than e.g. apt-get when you are searching for a package, a dependency, or information on which package brought that file into your system.
• Gentoo allows me to customize the CFLAGS used to compile packages. I don't mean going wild on optimization (as most people suspect from Gentoo users); I mean that, on a development machine, I want my packages with debug information, and on a production machine, I require my packages without debug information.