fophillips dot org‣ June 2nd, 2008‣ Searching for the Perfect Distro

Since my previous post where I said I would be keeping the default Xandros installation on my EeePC I have installed Eeebuntu. I have been using it for about 2 days now, and after using paludis for a few months it is quite clear how catastrophically abysmal apt really is. I was trying to install darcs which managed to crash apt-get when it was “configuring” it. The same happened everytime I tried dpkg --configure -a, this meant I could not uninstall it until a successful dpkg configure. Which basically just broke it all completely.

As of writing I am midway through installing Arch in hope it will fare better. I was a long time Arch user before switching full time to Gentoo (which I won't install on my Eee because of compile times).