[ltp] Preferred distro for Thinkpads?

[Alejandro Bonilla Beeche]

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 19:10 +0100, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
> Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have debian Sid. Sarge will do good or Ubuntu. It supports all
> > Thinkpad features that any other Distro does.
> > 
> > Think about it this way. My PC with Debian, boot on 34 seconds, with
> > FC4, it takes almost 2 minutes. Yoo choose.
> > 
> 
> Is that because Debian is actually more efficient, or is it because by 
> default, FC4 installs more services? ie. if you spend a few minutes with 
> chkconfig --del on FC4 stopping things you don't need, is the 
> performance comparable? I should have expected that Debian would be less 
> efficient - since (iirc), it is still compiled for i386, whereas (iirc), 
>   Fedora is compiled for i586 and above only.

Then again, I should have added something that was obvious. You should
use what you like. You like FC4 and all it's services? And to remove all
the unnecessary stuff? Then you should use FC4.

I like debian cause it's fast, boots fast, makes my life simple and I
don't have to fool around with it to work fine.

It *has* what I need it to have, because I install it. I don't want to
have crap all over my distro that I'm never going to use. Debian
installs a LOADED Linux box in 600MB, FC requires what? 2.5GB?

Come on. We know that RH, FC, Mdk... They are made to be simpler, broad,
feature ready out of the box. But that does not say that it will do what
you really need.

Anyway, I use it cause I like it, you use the other cause you like it.
The always distro war answer.


> Richard