On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:00 +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: > > > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at > > supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as > > Fedora, > > in terms of when it releases updates, etc. > > I find that hard to believe... >
I know, I would find it hard to believe too. But, just a simple comparision with the Fedora feedlist will show you that this is generally true. Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 & 4 email updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most of them are KDE-related files, so normally I would have never noticed this. I'll keep the list for awhile in case anyone is interested in reviewing it. Of course, you can also view the Fedora feedlist website. I should also add that I noted about eight random and recent examples. Finally, other users who joined the thread have also provided examples. > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support > > the > > latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any > > perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does > > anyone > > wish to share a comparison of the two? > > The short version: > > LFS is for those who wishes to learn how to build an operating system from > scratch. Or for control-freaks (like me). Or a combination of both... :-) > > Gentoo is a more practical version of LFS, where "practical" means less > time-consuming, since you don't have to install each package (and it's > dependencies) yourself and there are default settings/scripts that > usually works ok with no/minor tweaking. Though you can install a package > manager in LFS too (like rpm, apt, ports etc.). > I think I'm a combination of the two also. Thanks. > HTH > > Best regards > > Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
