[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone here use Gentoo?

[David Venable]

JR Newsletters wrote:

> I'm just curious. After being on RedHat for a number of years, I tried 
> Gentoo on both my main home machine and my laptop, and was really 
> stunned as to how much better the performance was on my two machines.  
> And as a side effect, I've noticed that some programs, that claim that 
> they only run on RedHat, seem to work with no problems on my Gentoo 
> box.  And quite frankly, I haven't missed RPM at all.
>
> So I was curious if anyone else here is running Gentoo as I've seen no 
> mention of it on this list.
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I ran gentoo a while ago on one of my boxes and was very impressed by 
the performance, the only downside with the distro that I saw was how 
long it took to get up and running due to the fact that it had to 
compile everything. I know that they have made great strides in 
releasing binary packages of some of the larger and more popular 
installs (XFree, Gnome, etc.). But I'll have to admit that I was playing 
with it on a very old laptop (AMD K6-266).

Dave