[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:49:50PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> > Wonderful when you can deal with compile times, hell when you just want to get into KDE and get going.
> > 
> > -Joseph M. Gaffney
> 
> I find Arch Linux to be a nice compromise on this point.  It binary packages
> 
> Gets you "into KDE and going" very quickly (via binary packages) if you 
> need it, but provides its ABS system which lets you build any(!) package 
> from scratch and tweak it when you want it.

Another vote for Arch and for the same reason.  What happened was, at
one point, (several years ago) Gentoo's glibc or gcc update was quite
difficult and time consuming--with Arch, it was a matter of pacman -Sy
glibc (or gcc) and it took about two minutes.  I've been an Arch convert
ever since. (With no putdowns of any other distributions--it  is just
that Arch works for me.  The other thing that I like about it is that
unlike some other distros with binary packages, packages built from
source compile without trouble.  On some other distributions, that use
binary packages, you have to various and sundry things to compile a
source tarball.)

-- 

Scott

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