{"id":114,"date":"2006-11-18T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-11-18T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:08:49","slug":"once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Once again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know (and if you don&#8217;t, you may want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=72\" title=\"install party\">this<\/a>), I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\" title=\"Gentoo Linux\">Gentoo<\/a> on my main workstation, and Ubuntu on my laptop. But I always felt that the default Ubuntu was too heavy: it takes so long to boot, a lot of unnecessary processes are started, the gnome environment is too slow, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So once again, I decided to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\" title=\"Debian Linux\">Debian<\/a>&#8230; I like distributions that allows you to decide from the beginning on what you are going to install or not (the main reason why I stick to Gentoo when enough compilation power is available). But once again, I was really disappointed by Debian: you only get very old stuff with the default repositories, and starting to add custom reps is an open door to configuration problems.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked for alternatives, and I decided to try the server version of Ubuntu&#8230; The installation went smooth, but the first boot didn&#8217;t&#8230; I just received some &#8220;unknown interrupt or fault&#8221;, and it seemed I wasn&#8217;t the only one.<\/p>\n<p>My last attempt at installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\" title=\"ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a> was using the 6-10 alternate image&#8230;. And that is what I should have done since the beginning!!!! You can choose to install a Command Line Only system, and then build your customized system upon it! It is just the right choice between Debian and the default Ubuntu: the freedom of choice that Debian offers, with the latest packages built for Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>My laptop now boots in less than 30sec, is fast as hell, and is provided with the latest packages (firefox 2, kernel 2.6.17-10, &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>You should really give it a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know (and if you don&#8217;t, you may want to read this), I&#8217;m using Gentoo on my main workstation, and Ubuntu on my laptop. But I always felt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}