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Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Wed Aug 21 21:32:14 CDT 2002


bryn konti wrote:
...
> 
> Has anyone else ever tried Gentoo? I think it is
> without doubt the most amazing linux ever put
> together. 
> Portage is similiar to Debian's package manager, in
> that it installs and removes packages well...but
> that's where the similiarity ends.  Portage gets the
> source code (not binaries)for packages then compiles
> and optimizes them to your machine.  You even compile
> the latest kernel to your specs as well. In the end,
> you get the fastest, most high tech linux you have
> ever used bar none. I am so impressed with Gentoo,
> that I am in the process of converting all of my linux
> boxes to this distribution. 
> 
> 
> http://gentoo.org/index-about.html

Biggest problem with gentoo (and FreeBSD ports as well)
is that it is disk intensive because of the source-build
requirement.  I installed FreeBSD 4.5 and really hated
it when it had to pull down XFree86 for rebuild....
boy... that took a lot of disk and a lot of time.

However, if you have disk and time... you are right
in that you'll end up with a very well-tuned machine
(if gentoo is anything like ports).... really only
a problem on older machines where processor and
disk are scarce.







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