[olug] Distros

[Jonathan Warren]

I think this is the 5th place I have seen Gentoo mentioned this week.  Hmmm.  How is it like Slackware?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:00:13AM -0500, Mike Hostetler wrote:
> 
> I don't think I've thrown my hat into this . . . . 
> 
> Currently, I'm running Gentoo and I love it.  It's sorta a combo of
> Slackware and Debian.  It has "ebuild" packages, which give the URL where
> to download the sources and patches, and it downloads them, and compiles
> from source.  The intital install is a bit of work (not hard -- the
> documentation steps you through it.  But you have to manually do fdisk,
> etc).  And one or two commands updates your entire system.
> 
> I like it because I have complete control on my system, new versions are
> immediately available, I don't have rpm-hell problems, and it only
> installes packages I want.
> 
> You must have fast internet (cable modem, T1, etc), and the intital
> install takes some doing, but you learn *a lot* about Linux (and your
> system), and the resulting system is fast, fast, fast . . . 
> 
> www.gentoo.org
> 
> -- mikeh
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