veronicathecow wrote:Hi sickgut , ever thought of PCLinuxOS as a base?
Of all OS's I find that works best out of the box.
Cheers. Tony
its kind of like what they used to say about redhat vs slackware "learn redhat and you are learning about redhat, learn slackware and you are learning linux"....
in the same way of thinking i dont want to get very far away from the "source". Manipulating the OS that PCLinuxOS is based on (debian) gives us more control over the low level technical aspects. Learning debian lets us learn about all debian based OSes, but leaning PCLinuxOS just means you are learning a 2nd hand OS and its more restricting.
Having said the above, i do have great respect for PClinuxOS as an OS to use normally, but as far as creating an OS from it... i would prefer to make the OS from something closer to the "source" ie debian or ubuntu.
I used PCLinuxOS in 2008 and was completely impressed by it as a desktop OS, that had a large software selection in its repo and also an active community. PCLinuxOS in my experience was a much more complete desktop OS when compared to ubuntu or debian at the time. So please dont think i dont like PCLinuxOS.
i know that ubuntu started out as an OS based on debian, but now its so far detached that it has become a 1st tier OS just like debian is. But ubuntu really does suck when compared to debians reliability and testing and its much more inefficient and its been the linux OS ive hated the most because i dont agree with what it stands for (a half assed attempt to make linux be like windows), but its hard not to be seduced by the way it handles its live system, its much better than debian live, and at the bare base level... all of the "linux made to be a windows or mac ripoff" is missing.
Debian is made by alot of overly technical people and their default iso's offer a broken and very bad desktop experience, but the technical stuff is so well documented and reliable that its the obvious choice for my Pussy technically orientated OS.