Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 68.149.51.213]
on January 17, 2008 04:46 PM
Annvix isn't Gentoo... =) You don't have to compile things on your own to get (most) of the goodies you'd expect in a server environment, which the author outlined above. Yes, there is no GUI, and no GUI configuration apps, but so what? It includes vim and all these server apps have well-documented configuration files. And it's also just as pre-configured as any other distro.. no one expects you to write the apache configuration files from scratch.
Bottom line is that Annvix is spartan in some areas, sure... it doesn't come with a dozen different text editors; it comes with one (although you can compile joe or nano via ports very easily). A lot of it will work "out of the box" with minimal configuration -- same as any other distro. There is no "start from scratch" with Annvix. It's pre-compiled, pre-configured, does quite a bit of hand-holding and setup during the install (despite no GUI installer). If it was a start from scratch distro, do you honestly think you could have a full-blown webserver with php, apache, mysql, etc. installed on a system in under 20 minutes? And that includes you manually partitioning and formatting the mount points (yeah, that part is a little old-school, but then again you don't have some GUI making dumb assumptions for you).
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 68.149.51.213] on January 17, 2008 04:46 PMBottom line is that Annvix is spartan in some areas, sure... it doesn't come with a dozen different text editors; it comes with one (although you can compile joe or nano via ports very easily). A lot of it will work "out of the box" with minimal configuration -- same as any other distro. There is no "start from scratch" with Annvix. It's pre-compiled, pre-configured, does quite a bit of hand-holding and setup during the install (despite no GUI installer). If it was a start from scratch distro, do you honestly think you could have a full-blown webserver with php, apache, mysql, etc. installed on a system in under 20 minutes? And that includes you manually partitioning and formatting the mount points (yeah, that part is a little old-school, but then again you don't have some GUI making dumb assumptions for you).
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