http://disqus.com/by/contsys/enTue, 05 Feb 2008 10:28:29 -0000(u'http://contsys.tumblr.com/post/25409406',%20126226L)#comment-126226<p>I encountered something similar recently. In short, networkmanager sucks, so does GNOME &amp; KDE. debian is worse than ubuntu in my experience.</p><p>WARNING!! PREACHY, BOASTFULL: <br>Are u using a laptop? then get slackware with A,AP, D, F and X sets, build everything else. I'm doing that for the past couple of weeks.</p><p>Why bother? well, its better than being dis-satisfied with someone else's binaries. In a lot of cases, we can compile better featured pkgs like bash with completions, amarok with lastfm and musicbrainz support, customised pam support (eg with tcb - <a href="http://www.openwall.com/tcb/)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.openwall.com/tcb/)">http://www.openwall.com/tcb/)</a>, better crypt, freetype with bytecode interpreter etc. freshmeat contains a lot of patches that are pretty good but have no homepage (like the patch for mplayer that launches web videos in a seperate window)</p>bkrTue, 05 Feb 2008 10:28:29 -0000