Gentoo Impression

On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 08:20 AM, BoBB wrote:

> Well, if anyone has ever used BSD and linux they are definately
> different, bsd from what I hear doesnt have as much support for desktop
> like applications that people want to use. For example a friend of mine
> told me that he had a real pain getting dvd watching working in
> freebsd.
> Also ive heard that there are no nvidia drivers for BSD, not that that
> is the end all be all of computing and people should run linux instead
> of BSD, but the majority of gentoo users are not running rock hard
> servers, they are running bleeding edge desktop boxes.

I really meant it when I said I don't much. My son has a BSD machine
running KDE that looks like, well, KDE. I don't think I would have
known it wasn't Linux without being told. He did mention that he had
some hassle getting his sound card to work. Maybe that's the advantage
of Gentoo. Better support for hardware without having to do a lot of
mucking about.