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Mark Jose wrote: > > Perhaps we need to get a few more reviews into the dclug review pages - they > are in the main quite out of date now. I tend to see it as a discipline when installing a new distro. It is quite useful to write down what you did, what you liked/disliked. As our memories are fickle, and writing notes is useful for ourselves (and might help others). The problem is that approach tends to result in shallow reviews because you don't have much "time on type". But then a lot of folk just want to know what is bundled, and is it hard to get started with. On the upside when Etch releases, I'll have a lot of experience of it before writing the review. On the downside the review will have to compete for time with upgrading a lot of servers. > I have not written a review of any of the distros I use for the > lug, so maybe I should give it a go. Yes! I assume the Gentoo users are still waiting for Firefox to compile, before they submit their reviews ;) Someone do me a why Gentoo review! Like some of the BSDs, I feel I should know more, there seems to be a lot of clue behind it, but I'm not going to be sold on vague claims of benefits of compiling from source with different options (I can do that with almost any distro fairly easily if I wanted to). I note no Ubuntu reviews either?! I admit I skipped that one, but I didn't have a good time with the early Ubuntu releases, and I didn't want to damn it before they got started. We don't expect brilliant reviews, we just want a basic; it comes as a "CD/DVD/Flash card", it installs "easily/with difficulty/not at all", it has these interesting points "...", it "has/hasn't" commercial support available from "one/many". -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html