Thoughts on Gentoo

[Joshua Zeidner]

  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 at 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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