Gentoo in a straight-jacket, interesting. It looks like they are using the precompiled version of Gentoo, if I'm reading it right. I have three issues with going back to Gentoo. Sometimes they "freeze" an application for whatever reason. I always have trouble finding out how to unfreeze it and can't remember if I've ever successfully done so. Secondly, sometimes I need to install an application that uses a frozen app, because the developer hasn't updated his system or has the app unfrozen on his. Third and last, I've had my gentoo systems actually get fubared more than once from some funky thing I've done with portage. I am now running debian systems all greater than 1 year with no mishaps, no unfixed failed installs, no fubared update systems.

I do have one issue with my version of debian, there is some dynamically loaded power saving libraries that I uninstalled that the system sometimes complains about not being able to find. I have looked for where these could be and haven't been able to determine where Mepis configured these items and uninstalling failed to remove these things, which tells me the Mepis people did some custom configuration stuff. I admit, I haven't looked to hard to find it, just in /etc and in the library database. After next week when I'll have lots of free time, maybe I'll hunt it down (anyone want to adopt a soon to be out-of-work programmer?).

Brian Densmore

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay

http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=3321 VidaLinux 1.1 I think he could have done a better review of the free download version, but have a look.

Brian Kelsay