On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:24:23AM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > > This is a common misconception that dates from years ago. Now the loud > wannabe Gentoo ricer kids have all died out of boredom or got day jobs > and Gentoo is happily used in production as a high quality distro with > great management tools. And easily tunable for light dependencies on > packages if that's what you need. > > You can get a usable system in an afternoon (autobuild stage3) where the > installation is basically untarring the base system onto a fs and a > little configuration of the likes of fstab and such is to be done. Then > you build some X-tools, compile dwm and off you go. >
this is probably the cause, that you can get a working system quick enough. the speed up in modern machines probably really helps it along. > I tried migrating my personal laptops to arch, debian and the like and > always keep getting back to Gentoo. Debian is great, but so much less > flexible than Gentoo, and Arch is fine when you get to use the basic > (small) set of packages but venturing beyond that into the AUR is a > *quality disaster*. > > You may not like Gentoo for other valid reasons, but what you write is > sweet crap. > personally I like debian based distros if I were to be made to use linux and everything is free and opensource. If I need a production machine to deploy commercial or propietry codes and hardware (read infiniband networking, fibre networking and management software etc...) I would use RHEL or centos based distro. If I don't need linux, I'm kinda partial to the openbsd of the bsd family :) I guess use the right tool for the right job. Jimmy -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ | http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/~jtang
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