[oclug] Gentoo

[Matt R]

IMO, gentoo is a nice OS. The only "special" thing about gentoo is the
fact that you can build your whole system (except kernel) with your
own CFLAGS and the like. Which "improves" speed (I haven't noticed any
difference from what I had with slack9.1). Which adds time to the
installation (if you go with a stage1). The gentools is a pretty good
suite, ie etc-update updates the config files for the programs you
download, but you can chose either to replace or not, the config file.

There are a couple of other goodies, but like I said, it's main
attraction is the complete compile of the system. The rest of the
stuff you can find similar programs in other distros (apt-get,
pacman...).

Matt


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:21:16 -0500, GR Gaudreau <grgaud at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Has anyone on this list tried Gentoo on a X86? If so, how good is it
> compared to, say, Mandrake, or Ubuntu. I'd appreciate any feedback.
> 
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