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Re: you started this distro?
by Ian Monroe on Thursday 02/Nov/2006, @09:19

Well summer 2002 was when I picked my distro (Gentoo) so I remember the situation then pretty well. The distros back then sucked. If you wanted new stuff you had to go with Gentoo or with a RPM distro which forced reinstalls to update. There wasn't a happy medium, of an easy-to-use distro that was also had some apt-get goodness. This is the situation that both Ubuntu and MEPIS grew out of I'd guess.

And distros aren't like applications where you can just go an and add stuff. I'm an outsider to distros, but they always seem to be more political and have more organizational inertia then your average open source project.

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