too much bloat

[Andrey Vul]

On Jan 12, 2008 7:32 PM, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 4:25 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)?
>
> Umm, bloat?
>
> No, UUIDs are required to make certain you are actually mounting the
> right partion. Any modern 2.6.2x is going to require them. Alsa is
> automated to make your life easy.
/dev/hd* Just Works in gentoo.

For alsa, why not query the sound card type within a script to get the
sound card type (like lspci parsing) and use it to create the driver
load portion of a custom alsa file without boilerplate driver loading?

> And as for other distros, the delta between what fedora ships and what
> Ubuntu does is very very little. A few patches here or there and a few
> different programs but 95%+ is the same code. (of course, some of this
> is because OO.o is a bloated piece of crap.)
Which is why I use AbiWord, in addition to the fact that abw.bz2 makes
for the smallest file size of *any* word processor ff, far more
efficient than rtf or even txt


-- 
Andrey Vul