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

[Joshua Zeidner]

I thought I'd add my opinion here...

I've used Gentoo, and the package system does do some nice tricks.
But as is typical, Linux people completely overlook the dimension of
support and community, which when compared to a major distro like
Ubuntu has nothing more than a whiff of value.  If you are a hobbyist
it may be attractive, but I would not recommend its use for business.

-jmz


On 3/5/07, H. G. <tekronis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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