> I cant say I have, then again I tower over everyone at my college, so > few ever pass any negative comments my way. I have had respect, as > gentoo is percieved as one of the harder distributions to use (actually > some rate it the hardest except linux from scratch) from the IT department. > > There was that whole "Gentoo is for ricers" website which generally > mocked the gentoo community for their 'futile' quest to eck every last > ounce of CPU power from their machines. The gentoo community generally > had a sense of humour though, and i dont think the site is very > malicious itself. Besides - whats wrong with optimising to get the most > power out of your machine? I call that efficiency. ;) > > I guess gentoo is "out there" in the way that its source based rather > then binary-package based (the sense of "who the hell would compile > their entire OS from source and wait hours for it" thing). > > I also noticed that there is some animosity between the debian and > gentoo camps, anyone got any clue why? I generally dont discriminate > against others (providing they are using a Unix based OS =P ) ) . > > > Why? have you been descriminated against?
I'll sometimes pick up on it when I'm getting support from non-Gentoo people: "I wonder if this would happen with Red Hat?" "I don't know Gentoo." "I haven't had any problems with the stock Apache." All reasonable things to say, sure, but they came with discriminatory undertones if you ask. Gentoo, to me, is about "out with the old and in with the new". When you do that you end up with all kinds of benefits of which some are maximized performance, fine control, and minimal maintenance requirements. But big progressive moves are bound to be a bit bumpy at times. The current Apache layout reorganization in Gentoo is a perfect example of this. It's a balance between conservatism and progressiveness. Too much conservatism and you build another RedHat/SuSe/Mandrake. Too little and you have Apache layout compatibility problems. This "slow down/speed up" is very much like evolution, politics, and a million other things in life. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
