Stampede

[Rafe Magnuson]

I should probably have been a bit more succinct in my inquiry.

I have actually tried SuSE, Caldera, Debian, Mandrake and a few others
and am currently using RedHat7 on one of my home systems and an IBM Thinkpad
at work - also I have "BigSlack" running in a section of this systems
hard drive (which, incidentally, I find to be most desirable in a stripped-down
kind of way).

The reason I asked about "Stampede" specifically is because I had read
that it was compiled to take advantage of i586 type instruction sets,
which of course would make it a great deal faster on those types of systems.
That being said, anyone have any further comment on the issue?

Thanks,

-- 
Rafe Magnuson
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---- ME <dugan at passwall.com> wrote:
> Stampede can be found at: http://www.stampede.org/
> 
> It is not as mainstream as distros like:
> RedHat
> SuSE
> or Debian
> 
> One strong advantage with choosing a mainstream distro is that it is
> often
> easier to find support for a distro that is more widely used. RedHat
> is
> the most commonly used distro among the attending members of nblug.
> (From
> previous informal surveys.) I think Debian or SuSE is second. I know
> of at
> least 3 people that use Debian that attend these meetings on a regular
> basis.
> 
> I have not seen or met someone that uses stampede, but they claim to
> target the new Linux user. This often suggests that they will offer
> nice
> tools for easy installations and easy configurations. However, in the
> use
> of special config tools to make setup easier, there is a cost: you
> become
> stuck with their GUI manager utils, and must learn the command line
> tools
> in order to make a conversion to other Linux distros.
> 
> If you attend local installfests at nblug, or meetings, you would be
> better off choosing RedHat as a new user because there are many users
> of
> this that range from newbies to gurus who attend meetings. If you are
> a
> more advanced *nix admin, and have had experience, Debian has some
> very
> good advantages - especially if you admin many debian servers. (Debian
> can
> also import redhat packages, and suse packages, but I am not so sure
> redhat or suse can import debian packages. They might be able to do
> it now. (?) However, Debian can require more knowledge of what you
> are
> doing when you set it up for the first time. Installation on Laptops
> seems
> to be easier with newer redhat installas than Debian.
> 
> So, it exists, and it is out there, but unless you find something out
> there that it has that nothing else does, and you are willing to learn
> a
> lot on your own, choose a non-mainstream linux distro.
> 
> Summary: by using mainstream, you can tap into a larger userbase of
> people
> that can help you.
> 
> (There are many other distros of linux too. I can think of about 5
> more
> off the top of my head - some defunct/not in active development.)
> 
> -ME
> 
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Rafe Magnuson wrote:
> > I recently ran across this distro of Linux and was wondering if anyone
> > else has tried it? Everything I read about it says the install is
> similar
> > to Slack and that with the i586 compilations the system works much
> faster
> > overall on pentium class or greater machines. Can anyone verify or
> debunk
> > this?
> 
> 

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