While I haven't installed Gentoo yet,  I'll shoot from the hip with my 5-ish
years of experience with debian.

With debian, you can run servers as 'stable' and get solid, mostly no-fuss
installation of many programs. Dependencies are usually worked out for you
and as long as everything you need (it might be old) is in the stable
stream, it's quite easy.
Downside of debian: If you want cutting edge stuff, you will need to mess
with the packaging system and may be frustrated. Even 'unstable' isn't
always cutting edge, read-about-it-on-freshmeat-this-morning.

I see gentoo being awesome for someone who 1) has a clue, 2) likes control
over their systems 3) has time to compile everything.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cowan" <plug@uhduh.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Gentoo rocks -> Debian vs. Gentoo


> uh...
>
> apt-get update
> apt-cache search <blah>
> apt-get install <blah>
>
> how much easier do you want it?
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 11:23 pm, you wrote:
> > I'd have to disagree about it being for advanced users
> > only.
> >
> > I switched to gentoo because I wasn't thrilled with
> > the other package management systems. I liked apt ok,
> > but I still kind of felt swamped by having to use
> > dpkg, apt-get, apt-search, dselect, etc. Now if I want
> > something I can "emerge -s <foo>" and if I find it
> > "emerge <foo>"...it's that easy. Other than that it's
> > pretty much the same :).
> >
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