Well, I've come to the realization that my redhat intsall is so hacked up I need to start fresh... so I'm trying Gentoo.
After installing multiple version of the same things (not rpm'd) I'm unable to locate all the files to get rid of the rogue versions. So I'm in the process atm of installing gentoo linux. You can find out about it at the gentoo.org site. It is in essence THE distro for people serious about linux. If your giving it a shot for the first time, I'd suggest RedHat or Mandrake. The fact that Gentoo has more programs configured for their distro than the others made the difference for me. The fact that vcr, avifile, Xvid and other proggies I've been fighting with redhat to get working are compiled for Gentoo and downloadable off their site, made the difference.
I'm currently downloading the stage 3 tarball of their site and should have my fresh install up and running soon. (I hope)
I'll update here once I have it all done and working.
(1/1/2003 Edit... btw.. when downloading the stage 2 or 3 tarball... highlight the tarball and hit 'd' to download it. Don't do what i've just spent an hour doing... hitting enter and downloading the text, instead of saving it.)
Posted by Muddy at January 1, 2003 09:59 PM | TrackBack