Gentoo rocks

[Matt Pruett]

You should get a external dsl modem, less propriatary. Course thats $$$

On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 22:53, Kevin Brown wrote:
> >From everything I've seen and heard of Gentoo, I would put a box together just
> for it, but of course that requires having a job to get the money to build one. 
> If there was support for the Intel DSL 2100 or 2200 modem I'd dual boot my
> Athlon 650 Win98SE gaming machine, but alas I haven't seen any inkling of
> drivers for it.
> 
> > Greets list
> > 
> > This is old news but im new to the list and I wanted to post something.
> > :|
> > 
> > If there is anyone out there that has not tried this distro yet.... you
> > have to try it. www.gentoo.com
> > 
> > the package management is very slick and simple. It's actually all
> > source based. the emerge tool automaticly downloads the source packages,
> > compiles them as well as all of their dependancys.
> > 
> > This distro is for advanced users, as it doesnt have any pretty config
> > tools. (think Slackware + Kickass package management). I have been a
> > slackware user for about a year now, I dident like how much other dists
> > were so *in your way* about configuration and things, however while it
> > may seem like a contradiction for very common apps I did miss a good
> > package manager. Gentoo's package management however is pretty
> > unobtrusive and easy to understand/track. Of course one would never use
> > a package manager of any sort for things you want fine grained
> > configuration control over like Qmail and things.
> > 
> > Well anyway I'm impressed, its the first dist that ive seen (other than
> > slack) that I might consider putting on my main box.
> > 
> > This is yet another example of the shear power of open source.
> > 
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