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I can guarantee that if you compile it yourself, with optimized CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, that Firefox and Chromium will come out ahead of the poorly optimized builds that get released by the non-open source browsers.

Personally I use compiled versions on my Funtoo Laptop and Workstation. Yes they take some time to compile but if you only upgrade twice a year it's not so bad. Upgrading every release would simply be too much. My CFLAGS are nothing crazy: "-march=native -Os -pipe"

There is also the added benefit that I've never had a build crash on me since I started using builds compiled to my hardware capabilities.

Running 4.9 on 4 physical machines in my home. And also running 4.9 on over a dozen VMs in a datacenter without systemd.

There are a few distributions that don't push it down your throat. There are even a few others that offer (optional) alternative kernels and init systems.

Personally I use funtoo.

Take a look at www.without-systemd.org for more.

I recently purchased an HP LaserJet Pro MFP M127fn from my local office supply store.

I was expecting a fight to install the drivers and configure it. A really quick google search suggested to install hplip. I typed 'emerge hplip' (I use Funtoo) on the cli and it installed. I ran hp-setup and selected Network Printer and it auto discovered, and auto set it up.

On Windows I would have had to find the install disk, or go to the HP site and download a 500MB package just to install a printer driver. I don't actually have a CD drive on my laptop, so I would definitely have to download that huge driver and try to pointy-clicky through the interface.

Printing has become MUCH better over the years on Linux. My previous printer, a Samsung Laser (not sure of the model) was a similar setup to this HP, except it was over USB and not my local network.

They really do charge a lot for their courses... I haven't taken any of them, but I can't imagine them being particularly better than the free stuff available online, a google search away. I feel kinda bad because they support a good cause (I believe they help fund Torvalds to maintain the kernel, among other things), but their income sources are just kinda ridiculous.

And in case anyone wants some good intro to Linux material right away, check out this series by Daniel Robbins: http://www.funtoo.org/Linux_Fu...

Red Hat is doing something no other distro vendor has done

... Gentoo? And Daniel Robbins' Funtoo project?

These two distros are very similar, with a few key differences but in both you can choose how stable or not stable you would like. If you want stable, you can have stable. If you need bleeding edge, you can have bleeding edge.

Granted its not "automatic updates" but I don't like the idea of my server doing updates like that without me initiating them.

The point is that RDO isn't a new distro, or a specific RH flavour of OpenStack, but just plain vanilla OpenStack builds, nicely packed in RPM's and with a "yum" repository. So RH based distros like Fedora 18, CentOS, Scientific Linux can install and maintain it, just by enabling the RDO yum repo.

There is a quickstart guide and lots of documentation here:
http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart

All in all, this makes it really easy to test and play around with OpenStack.

Red Hat is doing something no other distro vendor has done

... Gentoo? And Daniel Robbins' Funtoo project?

These two distros are very similar, with a few key differences but in both you can choose how stable or not stable you would like. If you want stable, you can have stable. If you need bleeding edge, you can have bleeding edge.

Granted its not "automatic updates" but I don't like the idea of my server doing updates like that without me initiating them.

I don't know that this is the first. Funtoo has been around for much longer and is a "real OS" rather than a internet box only OS. I'd be interested in how they think they compare, but I also don't think that people interested in linux in general would find webconverger a useful OS over Funtoo.

They want to push Metro out as the replacement.

They do? Well it's about time they switched to a more stable system.

Microsoft at it again, ripping off other software's names. First Midori and now this.

I posted a review of Gentoo 2007.0 on my blog - See: http://www.funtoo.org/drobbins/blog/2007/05/gentoo -linux-20070-review-first.html

Oh, and check out http://www.funtoo.org/ while you're at it and let me know what you think of the new logo.

-Daniel

I posted a review of Gentoo 2007.0 on my blog - See: http://www.funtoo.org/drobbins/blog/2007/05/gentoo -linux-20070-review-first.html

Oh, and check out http://www.funtoo.org/ while you're at it and let me know what you think of the new logo.

-Daniel

Today, I received a nifty little postcard in the mail encouraging me to join the Microsoft Alumni Network. Their logo and color scheme is strikingly similar to that of Ubuntu Linux. Your guess is as good as mine as to who copied whom.