I learned a lot about the various distros at the SCALE conference
two years ago. You can tell what a distro is all about by the people
running the booth:
Suse/Novell: Corporate guys with "Novell" embroidered polos.
Obnoxiously condescending. They needed to call in their 'technical
guy' to answer any question aside from "how much does this cost?"
BSD: The guy running the booth looks like he hadn't stepped outside
in 4 years. He knew a hell of a lot about security though and I would
definitely trust him to manage security for a high-profile LAN.
Debian: Hardcore hackers. Solid. No time wasted there.
Gentoo: Bunch of kids under 25 who have not yet discovered shampoo.
They had a keyboard hooked up the computer. Heavy on the attitude.
Lots of technology. Need to get their !@#$ together.
-jmz
On 9/8/06, Kenneth <
madhse@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Any Gentoo users around here?
>
> I'm taking my second stab at setting it up on a spare partition. I'm not
> sure yet if I'm going to keep it, but curious what others think of it.
>
> So far, I haven't emerged gnome, as I haven't had 9 - 10 hours of free time
> to let it compile.
>
> I'm using icewm with no frills. I can say one thing for sure, its FAST. I
> don't know how much is due to the lightweight WM and how much to the custom
> compiling, but I like it.
>
> I was a little disappointed that I had to read up on USE flags just to
> install Mozilla, but I guess I had to learn sometime.
>
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