Amish Munshi wrote:
Ever heard about Debian's "apt" tools and Gentoos "portage"?
Not actually, are they the installers? Which one is better? I am planning to get a full distro of one of them.
they aren't really installers (In the "windows" sense) but more like command line tools which simplify installation of packages with auto-dependency managemnet, eg. "apt-get kde" or "emerge kde" will get the whole kde chain. gentoo downloads and compiles, while apt-get downloads teh binaries.
get Debian, Gentoo requires you to download and compile everything that you need. that sure makes for a lean and mean system, but most of us here don't have permanent internet connections...unless you're one of the lucky people who have cable/DSL/whatever. From what I've heard, Gentoo is very responsive coz it directly optimizes for your architecture, instead of most distros which optimize for i386 or i586. However, Debian also has a lot of stable but somehat outdated ports...you require to download the unstable ports. compare and decide on your own :-)