> I always recommend Gentoo over Debian and Slackware as a person's first
> "advanced" operating system, as the documentation in Gentoo is the most
> gentle one out there, and after learning it, I'm comfortable with rpm,
> rpm-source, or raw ./configure && make && make install with custom
> configure flags in many other distros, and I would know how to approach
> rolling my own distro if given the time and need.
I agree completely about the learning. Although I've worked with LFS before,
and at my previous job, we got Linux set up running on custom embedded
hardware, so I know a bit about the internals already.
> You don't have 9 hours of "free time" to compile Gnome? You sleep,
> don't you? Let it run overnight. Regardless, I'm starting to prefer
> fluxbox after seeing DSL's application of it.
Well, sure I sleep. Unfortunately, this computer is used by others, and some
of them are awake when I'm sleeping...
> I agree with the idea that Gentoo works best on a LAMP or similar
> setup. If you have a server which has a razor-sharp task, like doing
> nothing but SAMBA share, doing nothing but PostgreSQL or doing nothing
> but MySQL, then Gentoo really shines, whereas a desktop kinda has
> "everything" in it anyway, so the benefit over an all-binary repository
> is lost.
I never thought about it that way. Why would having everything installed
lose benefits? Part of the reason I like this way of doing everything is
that I can keep it cleaner, and not have as much junk as the big distros
typically install.
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