too much bloat

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Jan 12, 2008 7:25 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul at gmail.com> wrote:
> The base install has a lot of bloat, such as UUID's in fstab and
> unneeded crap in alsa rules and /etc/modules.d/ and is too automated
> for my liking.
> Which is more poweruser-friendly, debian, fedora, or other?
> I pretty much want a binary distro that gives you almost as much
> choice as gentoo *and supports jfs*, yet just works? My candidates so
> far are debian-unstable and fedora-(7 or 8, whichever has jfs support)
> (haven't tested either yet)?

I guess it depends how far on the developmental edge of a distro you
want to be and your actual needs.   I use Debian stable with JFS at
work on some servers, and it "just work" for me; in my environment I
didn't have the need to go to unstable.  I didn't know JFS doesn't
work in Ubuntu; never tried it in that distro.  But the jfsutils
packages has been in Ubuntu since Hoary. I would have guessed that
mean JFS support was available.

I suspect if you are looking for an answer to your question about a
power-user-friendly distro, and you seem set against Ubuntu for
various reasons, asking your question on a Ubuntu mailing list is
probably not the best place to ask.

Daniel

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Daniel Robitaille