From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan E. Davis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: best gnu/linux distro for emacs Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:09:47 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d042f9642ba844b04d894c610 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364033422 15625 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 10:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:10:22 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 11:10:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLPR-0000eM-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:10:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLP4-0000b5-2h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLOr-0000YS-RH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLOq-0003S8-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::229]:65002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJLOq-0003RI-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f41.google.com with SMTP id fo12so8777638lab.14 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:10:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=Wnt3FaXk2Fco107Lcy3ELDxK3TBXYqQxigzTBVKs2FQ=; b=pZ906oUJuiXaBH7Fryyb6dRahqxeSfAZzXeJgNh/wb0uCzGD6j1B3cbHsVmX1L1crI AFCpiWOsxHA/6AX0o90PHDmgr+xr/QoUJoZh3JDM7cpT+EZDYZz/W2btLzs/fMr6AsTt qtVHwjqIvFj103NYjpJ1gaPAmr+HvMsxjk0gjf3zWHs7CILDwsGNcslZuJCxRlZaMEZZ Y0OS/IwoqBSznbxNk0hvyYJ7C2WNVGz4Wii7rK3i05wLqDt708h609Toeu3TtjJThSMO UFpSBInY+eClSWxjL8Mm7YGXT133exoq7yREh4/8zguUd1Xtn2ozPWmMk+TJqiUgp6Yz m2aQ== X-Received: by 10.152.134.40 with SMTP id ph8mr2495791lab.39.1364033407711; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.152.124.174 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:09:47 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::229 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89680 Archived-At: --f46d042f9642ba844b04d894c610 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Many distros do not provide emacs out of the box. Something of a slap in the face, and unexpected. And annoying. Various distros handle emacs differently. I like the way Gentoo handles emacs, and I may reinstall gentoo in the future. Arch worked farily well. I would prefer to just leave it alone, pretty much, and tolerate compiling it oneself. For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for running emacs? Alan D --f46d042f9642ba844b04d894c610 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Many distros do not provide emacs out of the box.=A0 Somet= hing of a slap in the face, and unexpected.=A0 And annoying.=A0 Various dis= tros handle emacs differently.=A0

I like the way Gentoo handles ema= cs, and I may reinstall gentoo in the future.=A0 Arch worked farily well.= =A0 I would prefer to just leave it alone, pretty much, and tolerate compil= ing it oneself.

For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for run= ning emacs?

Alan D
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