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[MadHat]

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 21:32, Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.

Not that it really matters, but the ports collection of FreeBSD also has
binaries available.  Something like X would suck to have to compile yes,
but many smaller apps, it is nice to have the ease of grabbing the
latest with patches necessary as well as dependencies and have it
optimized for your system.
 
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          - Richard Thieme, DefCon 10, 2002