can PLD be my favourite distro?

[arnuld]

i am using Linux based GNU system from last 10 months, i threw away all
of Windows based & Windows CDs into the fire :-) 8 months ago, as i
made a decision to always use Free Softwares. anyway now i am using BLAG
Linux. over the time i have spent a good deal of time with Debian &
Fedora. here is the trouble i have now :

i have found most of the things are "hidden" behind the GUIs, (exactly
like Windows). I just do click, check some boxes & things are installed
or configured leaving me in confusion when something wrong happens.
now, from last 15 days i am getting irritated by GUIs, i can't focus on
my work when i use GUI configuration but i do fine when it comes to
"manual configuration" using files, i feel an attachment to this
sentence

"Gee.. in UNIX everything is file"

i tried OpenBSD, which has quite old software, NetBSD takes 18 hours to
get to work with a Desktop, a pinful task. i dont like FreeBSD, to me
it feels like Fedora which i hate.

i found PLD & Frugalware at WIKIPEDIA. Is PLD the one i am looking
for? (i am learning programmer & i use GNOME all the time with "gcc")

-- arnuld
http://arnuld.blogspot.com/

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

Post by arnuld
i found PLD & Frugalware at WIKIPEDIA. Is PLD the one i am looking
for? (i am learning programmer & i use GNOME all the time with "gcc")

If you like playing with system configuration manually, digging into details,
sometimes building stuff yourself from PLD cvs, providing fixes for things
you have found then PLD is for you.

If you need a system that's easy to install and doesn't require above then PLD
is not for you.

Post by arnuld
-- arnuld
http://arnuld.blogspot.com/

[arnuld]

Hai Arkadiusz,

Post by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
If you like playing with system configuration manually, digging into details,
sometimes building stuff yourself from PLD cvs, providing fixes for things
you have found then PLD is for you.

OK then, fro PLD 2.0-RC1 i have found 11 CDs. do i need all. i have
aslow broadband connection & it downloads 1 CD per night. i just want
to have GNOME, GCC, Firefox, Emacs, xterm running, everything else i
can download later in free time.

Post by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
If you need a system that's easy to install and doesn't require above then PLD
is not for you.

well ,this is the way Fedora and every other Linux distro are
following. i dont like them, rather i hate such *thought-processes*
that lock you in confusion when you are confronted with a problem in
your system.

Post by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz PLD/Linux Team

I am Arnuld Fraser the Copyleft-Volunteer ;-)

-- arnuld
http://arnuld.blogspot.com/

[Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała]

Post by arnuld

Post by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
If you like playing with system configuration manually, digging into details,
sometimes building stuff yourself from PLD cvs, providing fixes for things
you have found then PLD is for you.

OK then, fro PLD 2.0-RC1 i have found 11 CDs. do i need all. i have
aslow broadband connection & it downloads 1 CD per night. i just want
to have GNOME, GCC, Firefox, Emacs, xterm running, everything else i
can download later in free time.

simplest rule to install pld is - never use cd's ;)

download rescuecd, boot from it and.. install pld from network.
download ~50mb packages is enought for install "base" pld.

next, when you have "base" pld already installed it's easy to install
additional packages, X, firefox, gnome by poldek.