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

[H. G.]

On 3/5/07, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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.)


Yet another vote.
I have fond memories of Arch; used it a while back.
Its got the minimalism of Gentoo and the practicality of Debian.