[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone here use Gentoo?

[Steve Baker]

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.

At work, we develop on SuSE - but ship our embedded applications on Gentoo.

Exactly as people suggest, Gentoo is something of a pain to set up - but
there is a big payback when you get it right.  So, our production systems
run a standardized custom-Gentoo installation which is stripped down to the
bare essentials with a bunch of kernel setup tricks that we need.

For developing though - speed is less of an issue and SuSE is convenient
because you can install thousands of applications from a single DVD and
have pretty much all important OpenSource applications right there without
hunting around the web for them.

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