From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 15 22:30:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CCA16AA4E for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 22:30:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46FC43D45 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 22:30:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 40so124474nzk for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:30:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GMqznoFqG5Lh9df5ePdMbjorlln+sSyyJ7XYiopW+ZPy6heysoaapSHfqXK46hlwUh5HLhadLTka9GQQU+DnSSd86XlSQ/8Rtotnf2V351hYEWv0pf8qicCqYK9x/Q8P0InX9rCyFNzYscnl5M8gYkgCHgFO7o2G6DiX0KzwvV8= Received: by 10.36.247.45 with SMTP id u45mr3455208nzh; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Mon, 15 May 2006 15:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:30:20 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: vayu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 22:30:26 -0000 On 5/15/06, vayu wrote: > > On May 15, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > I have an older 440MX based laptop that I'm fairly sure FreeBSD won't > > like, I don't want to run windows on this box... so I'm looking for a > > Linux distro that has a ports like system. > > > > I need KDE, X.org, and a 2.6 kernel installed by default... dammit... > > I don't want to #$%! with Linux, maybe I'll give FreeBSD another try > > first, anyways, thanks for the suggestions guys. > > > > > > > I've heard that Gentoo's package management system "Portage" is > inspired by FreeBSDs ports, but I believe it's a bit of work to > install and compile a working system. > > I've been using Debian based Kubuntu on my laptop, and find the > package management excellent. The installation and maintenance is > easy. It's my choice when I want to install and go. > > Thanks, I didn't know Kubuntu / Ubuntu was Debian based. I like Debian but the distribution always seems to be stuck in last year, It's still using a 2.4 kernel, XFree86, and KDE 3.3! Anyways, Kubuntu 6.06 Beta2 appears to meet most of my requirements so I'll give it a whirl. --=20 BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/